Psalms 119 Cross References - YLT

¹ Aleph. O the happiness of those perfect in the way, They are walking in the law of Jehovah, ² O the happiness of those keeping His testimonies, With the whole heart they seek Him. ³ Yea, they have not done iniquity, In His ways they have walked.
⁴ Thou hast commanded us Thy precepts to keep diligently, ⁵ O that my ways were prepared to keep Thy statutes, ⁶ Then I am not ashamed In my looking unto all Thy commands.
⁷ I confess Thee with uprightness of heart, In my learning the judgments of Thy righteousness. ⁸ Thy statutes I keep, leave me not utterly!
⁹ Beth. With what doth a young man purify his path? To observe—according to Thy word.
¹⁰ With all my heart I have sought Thee, Let me not err from Thy commands.
¹¹ In my heart I have hid Thy saying, That I sin not before Thee.
¹² Blessed art Thou, O Jehovah, teach me Thy statutes.
¹³ With my lips I have recounted All the judgments of Thy mouth. ¹⁴ In the way of Thy testimonies I have joyed, As over all wealth. ¹⁵ In Thy precepts I meditate, And I behold attentively Thy paths. ¹⁶ In Thy statutes I delight myself, I do not forget Thy word.
¹⁷ Gimel. Confer benefits on Thy servant, I live, and I keep Thy word.
¹⁸ Uncover mine eyes, and I behold wonders out of Thy law.
¹⁹ A sojourner I am on earth, Hide not from me Thy commands.
²⁰ Broken hath my soul for desire Unto Thy judgments at all times.
²¹ Thou hast rebuked the cursed proud, Who are erring from Thy commands.
²² Remove from me reproach and contempt, For Thy testimonies I have kept.
²³ Princes also sat—against me they spoke, Thy servant doth meditate in Thy statutes,
²⁴ Thy testimonies also are my delight, The men of my counsel!
²⁵ Daleth. Cleaved to the dust hath my soul, Quicken me according to Thy word.
²⁶ My ways I have recounted, And Thou answerest me, teach me Thy statutes, ²⁷ The way of Thy precepts cause me to understand, And I meditate in Thy wonders.
²⁸ My soul hath dropped from affliction, Establish me according to Thy word. ²⁹ The way of falsehood turn aside from me And with Thy law favour me.
³⁰ The way of faithfulness I have chosen, Thy judgments I have compared, ³¹ I have adhered to Thy testimonies, O Jehovah, put me not to shame. ³² The way of Thy commands I run, For Thou dost enlarge my heart!
³³ He. Show me, O Jehovah, the way of Thy statutes, And I keep it—to the end. ³⁴ Cause me to understand, and I keep Thy law, And observe it with the whole heart.
³⁵ Cause me to tread in the path of Thy commands, For in it I have delighted. ³⁶ Incline my heart unto Thy testimonies, And not unto dishonest gain.
³⁷ Remove mine eyes from seeing vanity, In Thy way quicken Thou me.
³⁸ Establish to Thy servant Thy saying, That is concerning Thy fear.
³⁹ Remove my reproach that I have feared, For Thy judgments are good.
⁴⁰ Lo, I have longed for Thy precepts, In Thy righteousness quicken Thou me,
⁴¹ Waw. And meet me doth Thy kindness, O Jehovah, Thy salvation according to Thy saying. ⁴² And I answer him who is reproaching me a word, For I have trusted in Thy word.
⁴³ And Thou takest not utterly away From my mouth the word of truth, Because for Thy judgment I have hoped. ⁴⁴ And I keep Thy law continually, To the age and for ever.
⁴⁵ And I walk habitually in a broad place, For Thy precepts I have sought. ⁴⁶ And I speak of Thy testimonies before kings, And I am not ashamed. ⁴⁷ And I delight myself in Thy commands, That I have loved, ⁴⁸ And I lift up my hands unto Thy commands, That I have loved, And I do meditate on Thy statutes!
⁴⁹ Zain. Remember the word to Thy servant, On which Thou hast caused me to hope.
⁵⁰ This is my comfort in mine affliction, That Thy saying hath quickened me.
⁵¹ The proud have utterly scorned me, From Thy law I have not turned aside.
⁵² I remembered Thy judgments of old, O Jehovah, And I comfort myself.
⁵³ Horror hath seized me, Because of the wicked forsaking Thy law.
⁵⁴ Songs have been to me Thy statutes, In the house of my sojournings.
⁵⁵ I have remembered in the night Thy name, O Jehovah, And I do keep Thy law. ⁵⁶ This hath been to me, That Thy precepts I have kept!
⁵⁷ Cheth. My portion is Jehovah; I have said—to keep Thy words,
⁵⁸ I appeased Thy face with the whole heart, Favour me according to Thy saying.
⁵⁹ I have reckoned my ways, And turn back my feet unto Thy testimonies. ⁶⁰ I have made haste, And delayed not, to keep Thy commands.
⁶¹ Cords of the wicked have surrounded me, Thy law I have not forgotten.
⁶² At midnight I rise to give thanks to Thee, For the judgments of Thy righteousness.
⁶³ A companion I am to all who fear Thee, And to those keeping Thy precepts.
⁶⁴ Of Thy kindness, O Jehovah, the earth is full, Thy statutes teach Thou me!
⁶⁵ Teth. Good Thou didst with Thy servant, O Jehovah, According to Thy word. ⁶⁶ The goodness of reason and knowledge teach me, For in Thy commands I have believed.
⁶⁷ Before I am afflicted, I—I am erring, And now Thy saying I have kept.
⁶⁸ Good Thou art, and doing good, Teach me Thy statutes.
⁶⁹ Forged against me falsehood have the proud, I with the whole heart keep Thy precepts. ⁷⁰ Insensate as fat hath been their heart, I—in Thy law I have delighted.
⁷¹ Good for me that I have been afflicted, That I might learn Thy statutes.
⁷² Better to me is the law of Thy mouth Than thousands of gold and silver!
⁷³ Yod. Thy hands made me and establish me, Cause me to understand, and I learn Thy commands.
⁷⁴ Those fearing Thee see me and rejoice, Because for Thy word I have hoped.
⁷⁵ I have known, O Jehovah, That righteous are Thy judgments, And in faithfulness Thou hast afflicted me.
⁷⁶ Let, I pray Thee, Thy kindness be to comfort me, According to Thy saying to Thy servant. ⁷⁷ Meet me do Thy mercies, and I live, For Thy law is my delight.
⁷⁸ Ashamed are the proud, For with falsehood they dealt perversely with me. I meditate in Thy precepts. ⁷⁹ Those fearing Thee turn back to me, And those knowing Thy testimonies.
⁸⁰ My heart is perfect in Thy statutes, So that I am not ashamed.
⁸¹ Kaph. Consumed for Thy salvation hath been my soul, For Thy word I have hoped. ⁸² Consumed have been mine eyes for Thy word, Saying, `When doth it comfort me?'
⁸³ For I have been as a bottle in smoke, Thy statutes I have not forgotten.
⁸⁴ How many are the days of Thy servant? When dost Thou execute Against my pursuers judgment?
⁸⁵ The proud have digged for me pits, That are not according to Thy law. ⁸⁶ All Thy commands are faithfulness, With falsehood they have pursued me, Help Thou me. ⁸⁷ Almost consumed me on earth have they, And I—I have not forsaken Thy precepts.
⁸⁸ According to Thy kindness quicken Thou me, And I keep the testimony of Thy mouth!
⁸⁹ Lamed. To the age, O Jehovah, Thy word is set up in the heavens. ⁹⁰ To all generations Thy faithfulness, Thou didst establish earth, and it standeth. ⁹¹ According to Thine ordinances They have stood this day, for the whole are Thy servants.
⁹² Unless Thy law were my delights, Then had I perished in mine affliction.
⁹³ To the age I forget not Thy precepts, For by them Thou hast quickened me.
⁹⁴ I am Thine, save Thou me, For Thy precepts I have sought.
⁹⁵ Thy wicked waited for me to destroy me, Thy testimonies I understand.
⁹⁶ Of all perfection I have seen an end, Broad is Thy command—exceedingly!
⁹⁷ Mem. O how I have loved Thy law! All the day it is my meditation.
⁹⁸ Than mine enemies Thy command maketh me wiser, For it is before me to the age. ⁹⁹ Above all my teachers I have acted wisely. For Thy testimonies are my meditation. ¹⁰⁰ Above elders I understand more, For Thy precepts I have kept.
¹⁰¹ From every evil path I restrained my feet, So that I keep Thy word.
¹⁰² From Thy judgments I turned not aside, For Thou—Thou hast directed me.
¹⁰³ How sweet to my palate hath been Thy saying, Above honey to my mouth. ¹⁰⁴ From Thy precepts I have understanding, Therefore I have hated every false path!
¹⁰⁵ Nun. A lamp to my foot is Thy word, And a light to my path.
¹⁰⁶ I have sworn, and I confirm it, To keep the judgments of Thy righteousness.
¹⁰⁷ I have been afflicted very much, O Jehovah, quicken me, according to Thy word.
¹⁰⁸ Free-will-offerings of my mouth, Accept, I pray Thee, O Jehovah, And Thy judgments teach Thou me.
¹⁰⁹ My soul is in my hand continually, And Thy law I have not forgotten. ¹¹⁰ The wicked have laid a snare for me, And from thy precepts I wandered not.
¹¹¹ I have inherited Thy testimonies to the age, For the joy of my heart are they. ¹¹² I have inclined my heart To do Thy statutes, to the age—to the end!
¹¹³ Samech. Doubting ones I have hated, And Thy law I have loved.
¹¹⁴ My hiding place and my shield art Thou, For Thy word I have hoped.
¹¹⁵ Turn aside from me, ye evil-doers, And I keep the commands of my God.
¹¹⁶ Sustain me according to Thy saying, And I live, and Thou puttest me not to shame Because of my hope. ¹¹⁷ Support Thou me, and I am saved, And I look on Thy statutes continually.
¹¹⁸ Thou hast trodden down All going astray from Thy statutes, For falsehood is their deceit. ¹¹⁹ Dross! Thou hast caused to cease All the wicked of the earth; Therefore I have loved Thy testimonies. ¹²⁰ Trembled from Thy fear hath my flesh, And from Thy judgments I have been afraid!
¹²¹ Ain. I have done judgment and righteousness, Leave me not to mine oppressors. ¹²² Make sure Thy servant for good, Let not the proud oppress me.
¹²³ Mine eyes have been consumed for Thy salvation. And for the saying of Thy righteousness.
¹²⁴ Do with Thy servant according to Thy kindness. And Thy statutes teach Thou me. ¹²⁵ Thy servant am I—cause me to understand, And I know Thy testimonies.
¹²⁶ Time for Jehovah to work! they have made void Thy law.
¹²⁷ Therefore I have loved Thy commands Above gold—even fine gold. ¹²⁸ Therefore all my appointments I have declared wholly right, Every path of falsehood I have hated!
¹²⁹ Pe. Wonderful are Thy testimonies, Therefore hath my soul kept them.
¹³⁰ The opening of Thy words enlighteneth, Instructing the simple.
¹³¹ My mouth I have opened, yea, I pant, For, for Thy commands I have longed.
¹³² Look unto me, and favour me, As customary to those loving Thy name.
¹³³ My steps establish by Thy saying, And any iniquity doth not rule over me.
¹³⁴ Ransom me from the oppression of man, And I observe Thy precepts,
¹³⁵ Thy face cause to shine on Thy servant, And teach me Thy statutes.
¹³⁶ Rivulets of waters have come down mine eyes, Because they have not kept Thy law!
¹³⁷ Tzade. Righteous art Thou, O Jehovah, And upright are Thy judgments. ¹³⁸ Thou hast appointed Thy testimonies, Righteous and exceeding faithful,
¹³⁹ Cut me off hath my zeal, For mine adversaries forgot Thy words.
¹⁴⁰ Tried is thy saying exceedingly, And Thy servant hath loved it.
¹⁴¹ Small I am, and despised, Thy precepts I have not forgotten.
¹⁴² Thy righteousness is righteousness to the age, And Thy law is truth.
¹⁴³ Adversity and distress have found me, Thy commands are my delights. ¹⁴⁴ The righteousness of Thy testimonies is to Cause me to understand, and I live!
¹⁴⁵ Koph. I have called with the whole heart, Answer me, O Jehovah, Thy statutes I keep, ¹⁴⁶ I have called Thee, save Thou me, And I do keep Thy testimonies.
¹⁴⁷ I have gone forward in the dawn, and I cry, For Thy word I have hoped. ¹⁴⁸ Mine eyes have gone before the watches, To meditate in Thy saying.
¹⁴⁹ My voice hear, according to Thy kindness, Jehovah, according to Thy judgment quicken me.
¹⁵⁰ Near have been my wicked pursuers, From Thy law they have been far off. ¹⁵¹ Near art Thou, O Jehovah, And all Thy commands are truth.
¹⁵² Of old I have known Thy testimonies, That to the age Thou hast founded them!
¹⁵³ Resh. See my affliction, and deliver Thou me, For Thy law I have not forgotten. ¹⁵⁴ Plead my plea, and redeem me, According to Thy saying quicken me.
¹⁵⁵ Far from the wicked is salvation, For Thy statutes they have not sought.
¹⁵⁶ Thy mercies are many, O Jehovah, According to Thy judgments quicken me.
¹⁵⁷ Many are my pursuers, and adversaries, From Thy testimonies I have not turned aside.
¹⁵⁸ I have seen treacherous ones, And grieve myself, Because Thy saying they have not kept.
¹⁵⁹ See, for thy precepts I have loved, Jehovah, According to Thy kindness quicken me.
¹⁶⁰ The sum of Thy word is truth, And to the age is every judgment of Thy righteousness!
¹⁶¹ Shin. Princes have pursued me without cause, And because of Thy words was my heart afraid.
¹⁶² I do rejoice concerning Thy saying, As one finding abundant spoil.
¹⁶³ Falsehood I have hated, yea I abominate it, Thy law I have loved.
¹⁶⁴ Seven times in a day I have praised Thee, Because of the judgments of Thy righteousness.
¹⁶⁵ Abundant peace have those loving Thy law, And they have no stumbling-block.
¹⁶⁶ I have waited for Thy salvation, O Jehovah, And Thy commands I have done.
¹⁶⁷ Kept hath my soul Thy testimonies, And I do love them exceedingly. ¹⁶⁸ I have kept Thy precepts and Thy testimonies, For all my ways are before Thee!
¹⁶⁹ Taw. My loud cry cometh near before Thee, O Jehovah; According to Thy word cause me to understand. ¹⁷⁰ My supplication cometh in before Thee, According to Thy saying deliver Thou me.
¹⁷¹ My lips do utter praise, For Thou dost teach me Thy statutes.
¹⁷² My tongue doth sing of Thy saying, For all Thy commands are righteous.
¹⁷³ Thy hand is for a help to me, For Thy commands I have chosen. ¹⁷⁴ I have longed for Thy salvation, O Jehovah, And Thy law is my delight.
¹⁷⁵ My soul liveth, and it doth praise Thee, And Thy judgments do help me.
¹⁷⁶ I wandered as a lost sheep, seek Thy servant, For Thy precepts I have not forgotten!

³ `I pray Thee, O Jehovah, remember, I pray Thee, how I have walked habitually before Thee in truth, and with a perfect heart, and that which is good in Thine eyes I have done;' and Hezekiah weepeth—a great weeping.

²⁰ And Hezekiah doth thus in all Judah, and doth that which is good, and that which is right, and that which is true, before Jehovah his God; ²¹ and in every work that he hath begun for the service of the house of God, and for the law, and for the command, to seek to his God, with all his heart he hath wrought and prospered.

¹ A man there hath been in the land of Uz—Job his name—and that man hath been perfect and upright—both fearing God, and turning aside from evil.

⁸ And Jehovah saith unto the Adversary, `Hast thou set thy heart against My servant Job because there is none like him in the land, a man perfect and upright, fearing God, and turning aside from evil?'

¹ O the happiness of that one, who Hath not walked in the counsel of the wicked. And in the way of sinners hath not stood, And in the seat of scorners hath not sat; ² But—in the law of Jehovah is his delight, And in His law he doth meditate by day and by night: ³ And he hath been as a tree, Planted by rivulets of water, That giveth its fruit in its season, And its leaf doth not wither, And all that he doth he causeth to prosper.

¹ By David. —An Instruction. O the happiness of him whose transgression is forgiven, Whose sin is covered. ² O the happiness of a man, To whom Jehovah imputeth not iniquity, And in whose spirit there is no deceit.

² I act wisely in a perfect way, When dost Thou come in unto me? I walk habitually in the integrity of my heart, In the midst of my house.

⁶ Mine eyes are on the faithful of the land, To dwell with me, Whoso is walking in a perfect way, he serveth me.

¹ Praise ye Jah! O the happiness of one fearing Jehovah, In His commands he hath delighted greatly.

¹ A Song of the Ascents. O the happiness of every one fearing Jehovah, Who is walking in His ways.

²⁰ An abomination to Jehovah are the perverse of heart, And the perfect of the way are His delight.

⁶ Righteousness keepeth him who is perfect in the way, And wickedness overthroweth a sin offering.

²⁰ So that in My statutes they walk, And My judgments they keep, and have done them, And they have been to me for a people, And I am to them for God.

⁹ Who is wise, and doth understand these? Prudent, and knoweth them? For upright are the ways of Jehovah, And the righteous go on in them, And the transgressors stumble therein!

³ `Happy the poor in spirit—because theirs is the reign of the heavens. <sup>4</sup> `Happy the mourning—because they shall be comforted. ⁵ `Happy the meek—because they shall inherit the land. <sup>6</sup> `Happy those hungering and thirsting for righteousness—because they shall be filled. ⁷ `Happy the kind—because they shall find kindness. <sup>8</sup> `Happy the clean in heart—because they shall see God. ⁹ `Happy the peacemakers—because they shall be called Sons of God. <sup>10</sup> `Happy those persecuted for righteousness' sake—because theirs is the reign of the heavens. ¹¹ `Happy are ye whenever they may reproach you, and may persecute, and may say any evil thing against you falsely for my sake— ¹² rejoice ye and be glad, because your reward is great in the heavens, for thus did they persecute the prophets who were before you.

⁶ and they were both righteous before God, going on in all the commands and righteousnesses of the Lord blameless,

²⁸ And he said, `Yea, rather, happy those hearing the word of God, and keeping it!'

⁴⁷ Jesus saw Nathanael coming unto him, and he saith concerning him, `Lo, truly an Israelite, in whom guile is not;'

¹⁷ if these things ye have known, happy are ye, if ye may do them;

¹⁶ and in this I do exercise myself, to have a conscience void of offence toward God and men always.

¹² For our glorying is this: the testimony of our conscience, that in simplicity and sincerity of God, not in fleshly wisdom, but in the grace of God, we did conduct ourselves in the world, and more abundantly toward you;

¹ As to the rest, then, brethren, we request you, and call upon you in the Lord Jesus, as ye did receive from us how it behoveth you to walk and to please God, that ye may abound the more, ² for ye have known what commands we gave you through the Lord Jesus,

¹¹ For the saving grace of God was manifested to all men, ¹² teaching us, that denying the impiety and the worldly desires, soberly and righteously and piously we may live in the present age,

²⁵ and he who did look into the perfect law—that of liberty, and did continue there, this one—not a forgetful hearer becoming, but a doer of work—this one shall be happy in his doing.

¹⁴ `Happy are those doing His commands that the authority shall be theirs unto the tree of the life, and by the gates they may enter into the city;

²⁹ `And—ye have sought from thence Jehovah thy God, and hast found, when thou seekest Him with all thy heart, and with all thy soul,

⁵ and thou hast loved Jehovah thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might,

¹⁷ ye do diligently keep the commands of Jehovah your God, and His testimonies, and His statutes which He hath commanded thee,

³ and kept the charge of Jehovah thy God, to walk in His ways, to keep His statutes, His commands, and His judgments, and His testimonies, as it is written in the law of Moses, so that thou dost wisely all that thou dost, and whithersoever thou turnest,

²¹ and in every work that he hath begun for the service of the house of God, and for the law, and for the command, to seek to his God, with all his heart he hath wrought and prospered.

¹⁰ All the paths of Jehovah are kindness and truth, To those keeping His covenant, And His testimonies.

⁴⁵ That they may observe His statutes, And His laws may keep. Praise ye Jehovah!

¹⁰ With all my heart I have sought Thee, Let me not err from Thy commands.

²² Remove from me reproach and contempt, For Thy testimonies I have kept.

¹⁴⁶ I have called Thee, save Thou me, And I do keep Thy testimonies.

²⁶ Give, my son, thy heart to me, And let thine eyes watch my ways.

¹³ And ye have sought Me, and have found, for ye seek Me with all your heart;

²⁷ And My Spirit I give in your midst, And I have done this, so that in My statutes ye walk, And My judgments ye keep, and have done them.

²³ Jesus answered and said to him, `If any one may love me, my word he will keep, and my Father will love him, and unto him we will come, and abode with him we will make;

²⁰ because if our heart may condemn—because greater is God than our heart, and He doth know all things.

⁹ every one who hath been begotten of God, sin he doth not, because his seed in him doth remain, and he is not able to sin, because of God he hath been begotten.

¹⁸ We have known that every one who hath been begotten of God doth not sin, but he who was begotten of God doth keep himself, and the evil one doth not touch him;

¹ `And now, Israel, hearken unto the statutes, and unto the judgments which I am teaching you to do, so that ye live, and have gone in, and possessed the land which Jehovah God of your fathers is giving to you.

⁹ `Only, take heed to thyself, and watch thy soul exceedingly, lest thou forget the things which thine eyes have seen, and lest they turn aside from thy heart, all days of thy life; and thou hast made them known to thy sons, and to thy sons' sons.

²⁹ O that their heart had been thus to them, to fear Me, and to keep My commands all the days, that it may be well with them, and with their sons—to the age! ³⁰ `Go, say to them, Turn back for yourselves, to your tents; <sup>31</sup> and thou here stand thou with Me, and let Me speak unto thee all the command, and the statutes, and the judgments which thou dost teach them, and they have done in the land which I am giving to them to possess it. <sup>32</sup> `And ye have observed to do as Jehovah your God hath commanded you, ye turn not aside—right or left; ³³ in all the way which Jehovah your God hath commanded you ye walk, so that ye live, and it is well with you, and ye have prolonged days in the land which ye possess.

¹³ `And it hath been—if thou hearken diligently unto My commands which I am commanding you to-day, to love Jehovah your God, and to serve Him with all your heart, and with all your soul—

²² `For, if ye diligently keep all this command which I am commanding you—to do it, to love Jehovah your God, to walk in all His ways, and to cleave to Him,

³² The whole thing which I am commanding you—it ye observe to do; thou dost not add unto it, nor diminish from it.

¹ `And it hath been, if thou dost hearken diligently to the voice of Jehovah thy God, to observe to do all His commands which I am commanding thee to-day, that Jehovah thy God hath made thee uppermost above all the nations of the earth, <sup>2</sup> and all these blessings have come upon thee, and overtaken thee, because thou dost hearken to the voice of Jehovah thy God: <sup>3</sup> `Blessed art thou in the city, and blessed art thou in the field. ⁴ `Blessed is the fruit of thy womb, and the fruit of thy ground, and the fruit of thy cattle, increase of thine oxen, and wealth of thy flock. <sup>5</sup> `Blessed is thy basket and thy kneading-trough. ⁶ `Blessed art thou in thy coming in, and blessed art thou in thy going out. <sup>7</sup> `Jehovah giveth thine enemies, who are rising up against thee—smitten before thy face; in one way they come out unto thee, and in seven ways they flee before thee. ⁸ `Jehovah commandeth with thee the blessing in thy storehouses, and in every putting forth of thy hand, and hath blessed thee in the land which Jehovah thy God is giving to thee. <sup>9</sup> `Jehovah doth establish thee to Himself for a holy people, as He hath sworn to thee, when thou keepest the commands of Jehovah thy God, and hast walked in His ways; ¹⁰ and all the peoples of the land have seen that the name of Jehovah is called upon thee, and they have been afraid of thee. ¹¹ `And Jehovah hath made thee abundant in good, in the fruit of the womb, and in the fruit of thy cattle, and in the fruit of thy ground, on the ground which Jehovah hath sworn to thy fathers to give to thee. <sup>12</sup> `Jehovah doth open to thee his good treasure—the heavens—to give the rain of thy land in its season, and to bless all the work of thy hand, and thou hast lent to many nations, and thou—thou dost not borrow. ¹³ `And Jehovah hath given thee for head, and not for tail; and thou hast been only above, and art not beneath, for thou dost hearken unto the commands of Jehovah thy God, which I am commanding thee to-day, to keep and to do, ¹⁴ and thou dost not turn aside from all the words which I am commanding you to-day—right or left—to go after other gods, to serve them.

¹⁶ in that I am commanding thee to-day to love Jehovah thy God, to walk in His ways, and to keep His commands, and His statutes, and His judgments; and thou hast lived and multiplied, and Jehovah thy God hath blessed thee in the land whither thou art going in to possess it.

⁷ `Only, be strong and very courageous, to observe to do according to all the law which Moses My servant commanded thee; thou dost not turn aside from it right or left, so that thou dost act wisely in every place whither thou goest;

²³ But this thing I commanded them, saying: Hearken to My voice, And I have been to you for God, And ye—ye are to Me for a people, And have walked in all the way that I command you, So that it is well for you.

²⁰ teaching them to observe all, whatever I did command you,) and lo, I am with you all the days—till the full end of the age.'

¹⁵ `If ye love me, my commands keep,

²¹ he who is having my commands, and is keeping them, that one it is who is loving me, and he who is loving me shall be loved by my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him.'

⁸ As to the rest, brethren, as many things as are true, as many as are grave, as many as are righteous, as many as are pure, as many as are lovely, as many as are of good report, if any worthiness, and if any praise, these things think upon; ⁹ the things that also ye did learn, and receive, and hear, and saw in me, those do, and the God of the peace shall be with you.

³ for this is the love of God, that His commands we may keep, and His commands are not burdensome;

¹⁰ A clean heart prepare for me, O God, And a right spirit renew within me.

³² The way of Thy commands I run, For Thou dost enlarge my heart!

³⁶ Incline my heart unto Thy testimonies, And not unto dishonest gain.

⁴⁴ And I keep Thy law continually, To the age and for ever.
⁴⁵ And I walk habitually in a broad place, For Thy precepts I have sought.

¹³¹ My mouth I have opened, yea, I pant, For, for Thy commands I have longed.

¹⁵⁹ See, for thy precepts I have loved, Jehovah, According to Thy kindness quicken me.

¹⁷³ Thy hand is for a help to me, For Thy commands I have chosen.

³³ For this is the covenant that I make, With the house of Israel, after those days, An affirmation of Jehovah, I have given My law in their inward part, And on their heart I do write it, And I have been to them for God, And they are to me for a people.

²² for I delight in the law of God according to the inward man, ²³ and I behold another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of the sin that is in my members. ²⁴ A wretched man I am! who shall deliver me out of the body of this death?

⁵ and the Lord direct your hearts to the love of God, and to the endurance of the Christ.

²¹ make you perfect in every good work to do His will, doing in you that which is well-pleasing before Him, through Jesus Christ, to whom is the glory—to the ages of the ages! Amen.

²⁶ For then on the Mighty thou delightest thyself, And dost lift up unto God thy face,

³¹ I have adhered to Thy testimonies, O Jehovah, put me not to shame.

⁸⁰ My heart is perfect in Thy statutes, So that I am not ashamed.

¹²⁸ Therefore all my appointments I have declared wholly right, Every path of falsehood I have hated!

² `And the multitude of those sleeping in the dust of the ground do awake, some to life age-during, and some to reproaches—to abhorrence age-during. ³ And those teaching do shine as the brightness of the expanse, and those justifying the multitude as stars to the age and for ever.

¹⁴ ye are my friends, if ye may do whatever I command you;

¹⁰ for whoever the whole law shall keep, and shall stumble in one point, he hath become guilty of all;

²⁸ And now, little children, remain in him, that when he may be manifested, we may have boldness, and may not be ashamed before him, in his presence;

²⁰ because if our heart may condemn—because greater is God than our heart, and He doth know all things. ²¹ Beloved, if our heart may not condemn us, we have boldness toward God,

¹³ `And now, our God, we are giving thanks to Thee, and giving praise to Thy beauteous name; <sup>14</sup> yea, because, who am I, and who are my people, that we retain power to offer thus willingly? but of Thee is the whole, and out of Thy hand we have given to Thee; <sup>15</sup> for sojourners we are before Thee, and settlers, like all our fathers; as a shadow are our days on the land, and there is none abiding. <sup>16</sup> `O Jehovah our God, all this store that we have prepared to build to Thee a house, for Thy holy name, is out of Thy hand, and of Thee is the whole. ¹⁷ `And I have known, my God, that Thou art trying the heart, and uprightness dost desire; I, in the uprightness of my heart, have willingly offered all these: and now, Thy people who are found here I have seen with joy to offer willingly to Thee.

¹ To the Overseer, `On the Death of Labben.' —A Psalm of David. I confess, O Jehovah, with all my heart, I recount all Thy wonders,

⁴ Thy ways, O Jehovah, cause me to know, Thy paths teach Thou me. ⁵ Cause me to tread in Thy truth, and teach me, For Thou art the God of my salvation, Near Thee I have waited all the day.

⁸ Good and upright is Jehovah, Therefore He directeth sinners in the way. ⁹ He causeth the humble to tread in judgment, And teacheth the humble His way. ¹⁰ All the paths of Jehovah are kindness and truth, To those keeping His covenant, And His testimonies.

¹² I confess Thee, O Lord my God, with all my heart, And I honour Thy name to the age. ¹³ For Thy kindness is great toward me, And Thou hast delivered my soul from the lowest Sheol.

¹² Blessed art Thou, O Jehovah, teach me Thy statutes.

¹⁸ Uncover mine eyes, and I behold wonders out of Thy law.
¹⁹ A sojourner I am on earth, Hide not from me Thy commands.

²⁷ The way of Thy precepts cause me to understand, And I meditate in Thy wonders.

³³ He. Show me, O Jehovah, the way of Thy statutes, And I keep it—to the end. ³⁴ Cause me to understand, and I keep Thy law, And observe it with the whole heart.

⁶⁴ Of Thy kindness, O Jehovah, the earth is full, Thy statutes teach Thou me!

⁷³ Yod. Thy hands made me and establish me, Cause me to understand, and I learn Thy commands.

¹²⁴ Do with Thy servant according to Thy kindness. And Thy statutes teach Thou me.

¹⁷¹ My lips do utter praise, For Thou dost teach me Thy statutes.

¹⁰ Teach me to do Thy good pleasure, For Thou art my God—Thy Spirit is good, Lead me into a land of uprightness.

¹⁷ Thus said Jehovah, thy redeemer, The Holy One of Israel, `I am Jehovah thy God, teaching thee to profit, Causing thee to tread in the way thou goest.

⁴⁵ it is having been written in the prophets, And they shall be all taught of God; every one therefore who heard from the Father, and learned, cometh to me;

¹⁵ and if wrong in your eyes to serve Jehovah—choose for you to-day whom ye do serve; —whether the gods whom your fathers served, which are beyond the River, or the gods of the Amorite in whose land ye are dwelling; and I and my house—we serve Jehovah.'

²¹ Do not forsake me, O Jehovah, My God, be not far from me, ²² Haste to help me, O Lord, my salvation!

¹¹ Cast me not forth from Thy presence, And Thy Holy Spirit take not from me.

⁹ Cast me not off at the time of old age, According to the consumption of my power forsake me not.

¹⁸ And also unto old age and grey hairs, O God, forsake me not, Till I declare Thy strength to a generation, To every one that cometh Thy might.

¹⁶ In Thy statutes I delight myself, I do not forget Thy word.

¹⁰⁶ I have sworn, and I confirm it, To keep the judgments of Thy righteousness.

¹¹⁵ Turn aside from me, ye evil-doers, And I keep the commands of my God.
¹¹⁶ Sustain me according to Thy saying, And I live, and Thou puttest me not to shame Because of my hope. ¹¹⁷ Support Thou me, and I am saved, And I look on Thy statutes continually.

¹⁷⁶ I wandered as a lost sheep, seek Thy servant, For Thy precepts I have not forgotten!

¹³ For all things I have strength, in Christ's strengthening me;

⁶ and these words which I am commanding thee to-day have been on thine heart, ⁷ and thou hast repeated them to thy sons, and spoken of them in thy sitting in thine house, and in thy walking in the way, and in thy lying down, and in thy rising up, ⁸ and hast bound them for a sign upon thy hand, and they have been for frontlets between thine eyes, ⁹ and thou hast written them on door-posts of thy house, and on thy gates.

¹⁸ `And it hath been, when he sitteth on the throne of his kingdom, that he hath written for himself the copy of this law, on a book, from that before the priests the Levites,

¹⁶ `And now, O Jehovah, God of Israel, keep for Thy servant David my father that which Thou didst speak to him, saying, There is not cut off to thee a man from before Me, sitting on the throne of Israel, only, if thy sons watch their way to walk in My law, as thou hast walked before Me.

⁵ and it cometh to pass, when they have gone round the days of the banquet, that Job doth send and sanctify them, and hath risen early in the morning, and caused to ascend burnt-offerings—the number of them all—for Job said, `Perhaps my sons have sinned, yet blessed God in their heart.' Thus doth Job all the days.

²⁶ For Thou writest against me bitter things, And causest me to possess iniquities of my youth:

⁷ The law of Jehovah is perfect, refreshing the soul, The testimonies of Jehovah are stedfast, Making wise the simple, ⁸ The precepts of Jehovah are upright, Rejoicing the heart, The command of Jehovah is pure, enlightening the eyes, ⁹ The fear of Jehovah is clean, standing to the age, The judgments of Jehovah are true, They have been righteous—together. ¹⁰ They are more desirable than gold, Yea, than much fine gold; and sweeter than honey, Even liquid honey of the comb. ¹¹ Also—Thy servant is warned by them, `In keeping them is a great reward.'

⁷ Sins of my youth, and my transgressions, Do not Thou remember. According to Thy kindness be mindful of me, For Thy goodness' sake, O Jehovah.

¹¹ Come ye, children, hearken to me, The fear of Jehovah I do teach you.

⁴ We do not hide from their sons, To a later generation recounting praises of Jehovah, And His strength, and His wonders that He hath done. ⁵ And He raiseth up a testimony in Jacob, And a law hath placed in Israel, That He commanded our fathers, To make them known to their sons. ⁶ So that a later generation doth know, Sons who are born, do rise and recount to their sons, ⁷ And place in God their confidence, And forget not the doings of God, But keep His commands. ⁸ And they are not like their fathers, A generation apostate and rebellious, A generation! it hath not prepared its heart, Nor stedfast with God is its spirit.

¹¹ In my heart I have hid Thy saying, That I sin not before Thee.

⁹⁷ Mem. O how I have loved Thy law! All the day it is my meditation.
⁹⁸ Than mine enemies Thy command maketh me wiser, For it is before me to the age. ⁹⁹ Above all my teachers I have acted wisely. For Thy testimonies are my meditation. ¹⁰⁰ Above elders I understand more, For Thy precepts I have kept.
¹⁰¹ From every evil path I restrained my feet, So that I keep Thy word.
¹⁰² From Thy judgments I turned not aside, For Thou—Thou hast directed me.
¹⁰³ How sweet to my palate hath been Thy saying, Above honey to my mouth. ¹⁰⁴ From Thy precepts I have understanding, Therefore I have hated every false path!
¹⁰⁵ Nun. A lamp to my foot is Thy word, And a light to my path.

⁴ For giving to simple ones—prudence, To a youth—knowledge and discretion.

¹⁰ My son, if sinners entice thee be not willing.

¹ Hear, ye sons, the instruction of a father, And give attention to know understanding.

¹⁰ Hear, my son, and receive my sayings, And years of life are multiplied to thee. ¹¹ In a way of wisdom I have directed thee, I have caused thee to tread in paths of uprightness. ¹² In thy walking thy step is not straitened, And if thou runnest, thou stumblest not. ¹³ Lay hold on instruction, do not desist, Keep her, for she is thy life.
¹⁴ Into the path of the wicked enter not, And be not happy in a way of evil doers. ¹⁵ Avoid it, pass not over into it, Turn aside from it, and pass on. ¹⁶ For they sleep not if they do not evil, And their sleep hath been taken violently away, If they cause not some to stumble. ¹⁷ For they have eaten bread of wickedness, And wine of violence they drink.

⁷ And now, ye sons, hearken to me, And turn not from sayings of my mouth. ⁸ Keep far from off her thy way, And come not near unto the opening of her house, ⁹ Lest thou give to others thy honour, And thy years to the fierce, ¹⁰ Lest strangers be filled with thy power, And thy labours in the house of a stranger, ¹¹ And thou hast howled in thy latter end, In the consumption of thy flesh and thy food, ¹² And hast said, `How have I hated instruction, And reproof hath my heart despised, ¹³ And I have not hearkened to the voice of my directors, And to my teachers have not inclined mine ear. ¹⁴ As a little thing I have been all evil, In the midst of an assembly and a company.
¹⁵ Drink waters out of thine own cistern, Even flowing ones out of thine own well. ¹⁶ Let thy fountains be scattered abroad, In broad places rivulets of waters. ¹⁷ Let them be to thee for thyself, And not to strangers with thee. ¹⁸ Let thy fountain be blessed, And rejoice because of the wife of thy youth, ¹⁹ A hind of loves, and a roe of grace! Let her loves satisfy thee at all times, In her love magnify thyself continually. ²⁰ And why dost thou magnify thyself, My son, with a stranger? And embrace the bosom of a strange woman? ²¹ For over-against the eyes of Jehovah are the ways of each, And all his paths He is pondering. ²² His own iniquities do capture the wicked, And with the ropes of his sin he is holden. ²³ He dieth without instruction, And in the abundance of his folly magnifieth himself!

²⁰ Keep, my son, the command of thy father, And leave not the law of thy mother. ²¹ Bind them on thy heart continually, Tie them on thy neck. ²² In thy going up and down, it leadeth thee, In thy lying down, it watcheth over thee, And thou hast awaked—it talketh with thee. ²³ For a lamp is the command, And the law a light, And a way of life are reproofs of instruction, ²⁴ To preserve thee from an evil woman, From the flattery of the tongue of a strange woman. ²⁵ Desire not her beauty in thy heart, And let her not take thee with her eyelids. ²⁶ For a harlot consumeth unto a cake of bread, And an adulteress the precious soul hunteth. ²⁷ Doth a man take fire into his bosom, And are his garments not burnt? ²⁸ Doth a man walk on the hot coals, And are his feet not scorched? ²⁹ So is he who hath gone in unto the wife of his neighbour, None who doth touch her is innocent. ³⁰ They do not despise the thief, When he stealeth to fill his soul when he is hungry, ³¹ And being found he repayeth sevenfold, All the substance of his house he giveth. ³² He who committeth adultery with a woman lacketh heart, He is destroying his soul who doth it. ³³ A stroke and shame he doth find, And his reproach is not wiped away, ³⁴ For jealousy is the fury of a man, And he doth not spare in a day of vengeance. ³⁵ He accepteth not the appearance of any atonement, Yea, he doth not consent, Though thou dost multiply bribes!

⁷ And I do see among the simple ones, I discern among the sons, A young man lacking understanding,

⁹ Rejoice, O young man, in thy childhood, And let thy heart gladden thee in days of thy youth, And walk in the ways of thy heart, And in the sight of thine eyes, And know thou that for all these, Doth God bring thee into judgment.

¹³ `And not many days after, having gathered all together, the younger son went abroad to a far country, and there he scattered his substance, living riotously;

³ already ye are clean, because of the word that I have spoken to you;

²² and the youthful lusts flee thou, and pursue righteousness, faith, love, peace, with those calling upon the Lord out of a pure heart;

¹⁵ and because from a babe the Holy Writings thou hast known, which are able to make thee wise—to salvation, through faith that is in Christ Jesus; ¹⁶ every Writing is God-breathed, and profitable for teaching, for conviction, for setting aright, for instruction that is in righteousness, ¹⁷ that the man of God may be fitted—for every good work having been completed.

⁴ that they may make the young women sober-minded, to be lovers of their husbands, lovers of their children, ⁵ sober, pure, keepers of their own houses, good, subject to their own husbands, that the word of God may not be evil spoken of. ⁶ The younger men, in like manner, be exhorting to be sober-minded;

²¹ wherefore having put aside all filthiness and superabundance of evil, in meekness be receiving the engrafted word, that is able to save your souls; ²² and become ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves, ²³ because, if any one is a hearer of the word and not a doer, this one hath been like to a man viewing his natural face in a mirror, ²⁴ for he did view himself, and hath gone away, and immediately he did forget of what kind he was; ²⁵ and he who did look into the perfect law—that of liberty, and did continue there, this one—not a forgetful hearer becoming, but a doer of work—this one shall be happy in his doing.

³ And Samuel speaketh unto all the house of Israel, saying, `If with all your heart ye are turning back unto Jehovah—turn aside the gods of the stranger from your midst, and Ashtaroth; and prepare your heart unto Jehovah, and serve Him only, and He doth deliver you out of the hand of the Philistines.'

¹⁵ and rejoice do all Judah concerning the oath, for with all their heart they have sworn, and with all their good-will they have sought Him, and He is found of them, and Jehovah giveth rest to them round about.

³ My soul He refresheth, He leadeth me in paths of righteousness, For His name's sake,

³⁷ And their heart hath not been right with Him, And they have not been stedfast in His covenant.

² O the happiness of those keeping His testimonies, With the whole heart they seek Him.

²¹ Thou hast rebuked the cursed proud, Who are erring from Thy commands.

³⁴ Cause me to understand, and I keep Thy law, And observe it with the whole heart.

⁵⁸ I appeased Thy face with the whole heart, Favour me according to Thy saying.

⁶⁹ Forged against me falsehood have the proud, I with the whole heart keep Thy precepts.

¹¹⁸ Thou hast trodden down All going astray from Thy statutes, For falsehood is their deceit.

¹³³ My steps establish by Thy saying, And any iniquity doth not rule over me.

⁵ As to those turning to their crooked ways, Jehovah causeth them to go with workers of iniquity. Peace on Israel!

⁸ Cause me to hear in the morning Thy kindness, For in Thee I have trusted, Cause me to know the way that I go, For unto Thee I have lifted up my soul. ⁹ Deliver me from mine enemies, O Jehovah, Near Thee I am covered. ¹⁰ Teach me to do Thy good pleasure, For Thou art my God—Thy Spirit is good, Lead me into a land of uprightness.

¹³ Who are forsaking paths of uprightness, To walk in ways of darkness,

¹⁶ A man who is wandering from the way of understanding, In an assembly of Rephaim resteth.

⁸ And a highway hath been there, and a way, And the `way of holiness' is called to it, Not pass over it doth the unclean, And He Himself is by them, Whoso is going in the way—even fools err not.

¹⁰ And even in all this her treacherous sister Judah hath not turned back unto Me with all her heart, but with falsehood, an affirmation of Jehovah.'

⁶ Go astray do My flock on all the mountains, And on every high hill, And on all the face of the land have My flock been scattered, And there is none inquiring, and none seeking.

² Their heart hath been divided, now they are guilty, He doth break down their altars, He doth destroy their standing-pillars.

⁵ And those bowing themselves On the roofs to the host of the heavens, And those bowing themselves, Swearing to Jehovah, and swearing by Malcham, ⁶ And those removing from after Jehovah, And who have not sought Jehovah, nor besought Him.

²⁴ `None is able to serve two lords, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will hold to the one, and despise the other; ye are not able to serve God and Mammon.

²² The servants! obey in all things those who are masters according to the flesh, not in eye-service as men-pleasers, but in simplicity of heart, fearing God;

¹⁵ having forsaken a right way, they did go astray, having followed in the way of Balaam the son of Bosor, who a reward of unrighteousness did love, ¹⁶ and had a rebuke of his own iniquity—a dumb ass, in man's voice having spoken, did forbid the madness of the prophet. ¹⁷ These are wells without water, and clouds by a tempest driven, to whom the thick gloom of the darkness to the age hath been kept; ¹⁸ for overswellings of vanity speaking, they do entice in desires of the flesh—lasciviousnesses, those who had truly escaped from those conducting themselves in error, ¹⁹ liberty to them promising, themselves being servants of the corruption, for by whom any one hath been overcome, to this one also he hath been brought to servitude, ²⁰ for, if having escaped from the pollutions of the world, in the acknowledging of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, and by these again being entangled, they have been overcome, become to them hath the last things worse than the first, ²¹ for it were better to them not to have acknowledged the way of the righteousness, than having acknowledged it, to turn back from the holy command delivered to them, ²² and happened to them hath that of the true similitude; `A dog did turn back upon his own vomit,' and, `A sow having bathed herself—to rolling in mire.'

¹⁵ Love not ye the world, nor the things in the world; if any one doth love the world, the love of the Father is not in him,

²² Receive, I pray thee, from His mouth a law, And set His sayings in thy heart.

² But—in the law of Jehovah is his delight, And in His law he doth meditate by day and by night:

¹³ Also—from presumptuous ones keep back Thy servant, Let them not rule over me, Then am I perfect, And declared innocent of much transgression,

³¹ The law of his God is his heart, His steps do not slide.

⁸ To do Thy pleasure, my God, I have delighted, And Thy law is within my heart.

⁹⁷ Mem. O how I have loved Thy law! All the day it is my meditation.

¹ My son, if thou dost accept my sayings, And my commands dost lay up with thee,

¹⁰ For wisdom cometh into thy heart, And knowledge to thy soul is pleasant, ¹¹ Thoughtfulness doth watch over thee, Understanding doth keep thee,

⁷ Hearken unto Me, ye who know righteousness, A people, in whose heart is My law, Fear ye not the reproach of men, And for their reviling be not affrighted,

¹⁶ Thy words have been found, and I eat them, And Thy word is to me for a joy, And for the rejoicing of my heart, For Thy name is called on me, O Jehovah, God of Hosts.

¹⁹ and Mary was preserving all these things, pondering in her heart;

⁵¹ and he went down with them, and came to Nazareth, and he was subject to them, and his mother was keeping all these sayings in her heart,

¹⁶ Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, in all wisdom, teaching and admonishing each other, in psalms, and hymns, and spiritual songs, in grace singing in your hearts to the Lord;

¹¹ Show me, O Jehovah, Thy way, I walk in Thy truth, My heart doth rejoice to fear Thy name.

²⁶ My ways I have recounted, And Thou answerest me, teach me Thy statutes, ²⁷ The way of Thy precepts cause me to understand, And I meditate in Thy wonders.

³³ He. Show me, O Jehovah, the way of Thy statutes, And I keep it—to the end.

⁶⁶ The goodness of reason and knowledge teach me, For in Thy commands I have believed.

⁶⁸ Good Thou art, and doing good, Teach me Thy statutes.

⁷¹ Good for me that I have been afflicted, That I might learn Thy statutes.
⁷² Better to me is the law of Thy mouth Than thousands of gold and silver!

¹⁰⁸ Free-will-offerings of my mouth, Accept, I pray Thee, O Jehovah, And Thy judgments teach Thou me.

⁴⁵ Then opened he up their understanding to understand the Writings,

²⁶ and the Comforter, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, he will teach you all things, and remind you of all things that I said to you.

¹¹ according to the good news of the glory of the blessed God, with which I was entrusted.

¹⁵ which in His own times He shall shew—the blessed and only potentate, the King of the kings and Lord of the lords,

²⁷ and you, the anointing that ye did receive from him, in you it doth remain, and ye have no need that any one may teach you, but as the same anointing doth teach you concerning all, and is true, and is not a lie, and even as was taught you, ye shall remain in him.

³⁰ The mouth of the righteous uttereth wisdom, And his tongue speaketh judgment.

⁹ I have proclaimed tidings of righteousness In the great assembly, lo, my lips I restrain not, O Jehovah, Thou hast known. ¹⁰ Thy righteousness I have not concealed In the midst of my heart, Thy faithfulness and Thy salvation I have told, I have not hidden Thy kindness and Thy truth, To the great assembly.

¹⁵ My mouth recounteth Thy righteousness, All the day Thy salvation, For I have not known the numbers. ¹⁶ I come in the might of the Lord Jehovah, I mention Thy righteousness—Thine only. ¹⁷ God, Thou hast taught me from my youth, And hitherto I declare Thy wonders. ¹⁸ And also unto old age and grey hairs, O God, forsake me not, Till I declare Thy strength to a generation, To every one that cometh Thy might.

¹⁷ I do not die, but live, And recount the works of Jah,

⁴⁶ And I speak of Thy testimonies before kings, And I am not ashamed.

¹⁷² My tongue doth sing of Thy saying, For all Thy commands are righteous.

²⁷ that which I tell you in the darkness, speak in the light, and that which you hear at the ear, proclaim on the house-tops.

³⁴ `Brood of vipers! how are ye able to speak good things—being evil? for out of the abundance of the heart doth the mouth speak.

²⁰ for we cannot but speak what we did see and hear.'

¹² The command of His lips, and I depart not. Above my allotted portion I have laid up The sayings of His mouth.

⁹ The fear of Jehovah is clean, standing to the age, The judgments of Jehovah are true, They have been righteous—together. ¹⁰ They are more desirable than gold, Yea, than much fine gold; and sweeter than honey, Even liquid honey of the comb.

⁴⁷ And I delight myself in Thy commands, That I have loved,

⁷² Better to me is the law of Thy mouth Than thousands of gold and silver!

⁷⁷ Meet me do Thy mercies, and I live, For Thy law is my delight.

¹¹¹ I have inherited Thy testimonies to the age, For the joy of my heart are they.

¹²⁷ Therefore I have loved Thy commands Above gold—even fine gold.

¹⁶² I do rejoice concerning Thy saying, As one finding abundant spoil.

⁴⁴ `Again, the reign of the heavens is like to treasure hid in the field, which a man having found did hide, and from his joy goeth, and all, as much as he hath, he selleth, and buyeth that field.

⁴¹ then those, indeed, who did gladly receive his word were baptized, and there were added on that day, as it were, three thousand souls,
⁴² and they were continuing stedfastly in the teaching of the apostles, and the fellowship, and the breaking of the bread, and the prayers. ⁴³ And fear came on every soul, many wonders also and signs were being done through the apostles, ⁴⁴ and all those believing were at the same place, and had all things common, ⁴⁵ and the possessions and the goods they were selling, and were parting them to all, according as any one had need. ⁴⁶ Daily also continuing with one accord in the temple, breaking also at every house bread, they were partaking of food in gladness and simplicity of heart, ⁴⁷ praising God, and having favour with all the people, and the Lord was adding those being saved every day to the assembly.

⁶ Then I am not ashamed In my looking unto all Thy commands.

²³ Princes also sat—against me they spoke, Thy servant doth meditate in Thy statutes,

⁴⁸ And I lift up my hands unto Thy commands, That I have loved, And I do meditate on Thy statutes!

⁷⁸ Ashamed are the proud, For with falsehood they dealt perversely with me. I meditate in Thy precepts.

¹¹⁷ Support Thou me, and I am saved, And I look on Thy statutes continually.

¹⁴⁸ Mine eyes have gone before the watches, To meditate in Thy saying.

¹⁴ In the way of Thy testimonies I have joyed, As over all wealth.

²⁴ Thy testimonies also are my delight, The men of my counsel!

³⁵ Cause me to tread in the path of Thy commands, For in it I have delighted.

⁷⁰ Insensate as fat hath been their heart, I—in Thy law I have delighted.

⁸³ For I have been as a bottle in smoke, Thy statutes I have not forgotten.

⁹² Unless Thy law were my delights, Then had I perished in mine affliction.
⁹³ To the age I forget not Thy precepts, For by them Thou hast quickened me.

¹⁰⁹ My soul is in my hand continually, And Thy law I have not forgotten.

¹⁴¹ Small I am, and despised, Thy precepts I have not forgotten.

¹ My son! my law forget not, And my commands let thy heart keep,

²² for I delight in the law of God according to the inward man,

¹⁶ `This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, saith the Lord, giving My laws on their hearts, and upon their minds I will write them,' <sup>17</sup> and `their sins and their lawlessness I will remember no more;'

²³ because, if any one is a hearer of the word and not a doer, this one hath been like to a man viewing his natural face in a mirror, ²⁴ for he did view himself, and hath gone away, and immediately he did forget of what kind he was;

⁶ I do sing to Jehovah, For He hath conferred benefits upon me!

⁷ Turn back, O my soul, to thy rest, For Jehovah hath conferred benefits on thee.

⁶⁵ Teth. Good Thou didst with Thy servant, O Jehovah, According to Thy word.

¹³² Look unto me, and favour me, As customary to those loving Thy name.

¹⁶ and out of his fulness did we all receive, and grace over-against grace;

² for the law of the Spirit of the life in Christ Jesus did set me free from the law of the sin and of the death; ³ for what the law was not able to do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God, His own Son having sent in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, did condemn the sin in the flesh, ⁴ that the righteousness of the law may be fulfilled in us, who do not walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit.

⁷ each one, according as he doth purpose in heart, not out of sorrow or out of necessity, for a cheerful giver doth God love, ⁸ and God is able all grace to cause to abound to you, that in every thing always all sufficiency having, ye may abound to every good work, ⁹ (according as it hath been written, `He dispersed abroad, he gave to the poor, his righteousness doth remain to the age,') ¹⁰ and may He who is supplying seed to the sower, and bread for food, supply and multiply your seed sown, and increase the fruits of your righteousness, ¹¹ in every thing being enriched to all liberality, which doth work through us thanksgiving to God,

⁴ and God, being rich in kindness, because of His great love with which He loved us, ⁵ even being dead in the trespasses, did make us to live together with the Christ, (by grace ye are having been saved,)

¹⁰ for of Him we are workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to good works, which God did before prepare, that in them we may walk.

¹⁹ and my God shall supply all your need, according to His riches in glory in Christ Jesus;

²⁹ if ye know that he is righteous, know ye that every one doing the righteousness, of him hath been begotten.

³ for this is the love of God, that His commands we may keep, and His commands are not burdensome; ⁴ because every one who is begotten of God doth overcome the world, and this is the victory that did overcome the world—our faith;

⁹⁶ Of all perfection I have seen an end, Broad is Thy command—exceedingly!

¹⁰ For poured out on you hath Jehovah a spirit of deep sleep, And He closeth your eyes—the prophets, And your heads—the seers—He covered. ¹¹ And the vision of the whole is to you, As words of the sealed book, That they give unto one knowing books, Saying, `Read this, we pray thee,' And he hath said, `I am not able, for it is sealed;' ¹² And the book is given to him who hath not known books, Saying, `Read this, we pray thee,' And he hath said, `I have not known books.'

¹⁸ And heard in that day have the deaf the words of a book, And out of thick darkness, and out of darkness, The eyes of the blind do see.

³ And not dazzled are the eyes of beholders, And the ears of hearers do attend.

⁵ Then opened are eyes of the blind, And ears of the deaf are unstopped,

¹² I write for him numerous things of My law, As a strange thing they have been reckoned.

¹³ `Because of this, in similes do I speak to them, because seeing they do not see, and hearing they do not hear, nor understand,

¹⁷ And Jesus answering said to him, `Happy art thou, Simon Bar-Jona, because flesh and blood did not reveal it to thee, but my Father who is in the heavens.

³⁹ And Jesus said, `For judgment I to this world did come, that those not seeing may see, and those seeing may become blind.'

¹⁸ to open their eyes, to turn them from darkness to light, and from the authority of the Adversary unto God, for their receiving forgiveness of sins, and a lot among those having been sanctified, by faith that is toward me.

¹³ and are not as Moses, who was putting a vail upon his own face, for the sons of Israel not stedfastly to look to the end of that which is being made useless, ¹⁴ but their minds were hardened, for unto this day the same vail at the reading of the Old Covenant doth remain unwithdrawn—which in Christ is being made useless— ¹⁵ but till to-day, when Moses is read, a vail upon their heart doth lie, ¹⁶ and whenever they may turn unto the Lord, the vail is taken away. ¹⁷ And the Lord is the Spirit; and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty; ¹⁸ and we all, with unvailed face, the glory of the Lord beholding in a mirror, to the same image are being transformed, from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord.

⁴ in whom the god of this age did blind the minds of the unbelieving, that there doth not shine forth to them the enlightening of the good news of the glory of the Christ, who is the image of God; ⁵ for not ourselves do we preach, but Christ Jesus—Lord, and ourselves your servants because of Jesus; ⁶ because it is God who said, Out of darkness light is to shine, who did shine in our hearts, for the enlightening of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.

¹⁷ that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of the glory, may give to you a spirit of wisdom and revelation in the recognition of him, ¹⁸ the eyes of your understanding being enlightened, for your knowing what is the hope of His calling, and what the riches of the glory of His inheritance in the saints,

⁵ who unto an example and shadow do serve of the heavenly things, as Moses hath been divinely warned, being about to construct the tabernacle, for `See (saith He) thou mayest make all things according to the pattern that was shewn to thee in the mount;') —

¹ For the law having a shadow of the coming good things—not the very image of the matters, every year, by the same sacrifices that they offer continually, is never able to make perfect those coming near,

¹⁸ I counsel thee to buy from me gold fired by fire, that thou mayest be rich, and white garments that thou mayest be arrayed, and the shame of thy nakedness may not be manifest, and with eye-salve anoint thine eyes, that thou mayest see.

⁹ And Jacob saith unto Pharaoh, `The days of the years of my sojournings are an hundred and thirty years; few and evil have been the days of the years of my life, and they have not reached the days of the years of the life of my fathers, in the days of their sojournings.'

¹⁵ for sojourners we are before Thee, and settlers, like all our fathers; as a shadow are our days on the land, and there is none abiding.

¹⁷ For God hath caused her to forget wisdom, And He hath not given a portion To her in understanding:

¹² Hear my prayer, O Jehovah, And to my cry give ear, Unto my tear be not silent, For a sojourner I am with Thee, A settler like all my fathers.

¹⁷ Why causest Thou us to wander, O Jehovah, from Thy ways? Thou hardenest our heart from Thy fear, Turn back for Thy servants' sake, The tribes of Thine inheritance.

⁴⁵ And they were not knowing this saying, and it was veiled from them, that they might not perceive it, and they were afraid to ask him about this saying.

⁶ having courage, then, at all times, and knowing that being at home in the body, we are away from home from the Lord, —

¹³ In faith died all these, not having received the promises, but from afar having seen them, and having been persuaded, and having saluted them, and having confessed that strangers and sojourners they are upon the earth, ¹⁴ for those saying such things make manifest that they seek a country; ¹⁵ and if, indeed, they had been mindful of that from which they came forth, they might have had an opportunity to return, ¹⁶ but now they long for a better, that is, an heavenly, wherefore God is not ashamed of them, to be called their God, for He did prepare for them a city.

¹¹ Beloved, I call upon you, as strangers and sojourners, to keep from the fleshly desires, that war against the soul,

¹¹ On His step hath my foot laid hold, His way I have kept, and turn not aside, ¹² The command of His lips, and I depart not. Above my allotted portion I have laid up The sayings of His mouth.

¹⁰ On the Mighty doth he delight himself? Call God at all times?

¹ To the Overseer. —An Instruction. By sons of Korah. As a hart doth pant for streams of water, So my soul panteth toward Thee, O God. ² My soul thirsted for God, for the living God, When do I enter and see the face of God?

¹ A Psalm of David, in his being in the wilderness of Judah. O God, Thou art my God, earnestly do I seek Thee, Thirsted for Thee hath my soul, Longed for Thee hath my flesh, In a land dry and weary, without waters.

² My soul desired, yea, it hath also been consumed, For the courts of Jehovah, My heart and my flesh cry aloud unto the living God,

³ O the happiness of those keeping judgment, Doing righteousness at all times.

⁴⁰ Lo, I have longed for Thy precepts, In Thy righteousness quicken Thou me,

¹⁷⁴ I have longed for Thy salvation, O Jehovah, And Thy law is my delight.

¹² Hope prolonged is making the heart sick, And a tree of life is the coming desire.

¹⁷ At all times is the friend loving, And a brother for adversity is born.

⁸ I have adjured you, daughters of Jerusalem, If ye find my beloved—What do ye tell him? that I am sick with love!

¹⁵ I have known thy works, that neither cold art thou nor hot; I would thou wert cold or hot. ¹⁶ So—because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I am about to vomit thee out of my mouth;

³ And Moses cometh in—Aaron also—unto Pharaoh, and they say unto him, `Thus said Jehovah, God of the Hebrews, Until when hast thou refused to be humbled at My presence? send My people away, and they serve Me,

¹¹ now I have known that Jehovah is greater than all the gods, for in the thing they have acted proudly—He is above them!'

¹⁵ `Cursed is the man who maketh a graven and molten image, the abomination of Jehovah, work of the hands of an artificer, and hath put it in a secret place, —and all the people have answered and said, Amen. <sup>16</sup> `Cursed is He who is making light of his father and his mother, —and all the people have said, Amen. ¹⁷ `Cursed is he who is removing his neighbour's border, —and all the people have said, Amen. <sup>18</sup> `Cursed is he who is causing the blind to err in the way, —and all the people have said, Amen. ¹⁹ `Cursed is he who is turning aside the judgment of fatherless, sojourner, and widow, —and all the people have said, Amen. <sup>20</sup> `Cursed is he who is lying with his father's wife, for he hath uncovered his father's skirt, —and all the people have said, Amen. ²¹ `Cursed is he who is lying with any beast, —and all the people have said, Amen. <sup>22</sup> `Cursed is he who is lying with his sister, daughter of his father, or daughter of his mother, —and all the people have said, Amen. ²³ `Cursed is he who is lying with his mother-in-law, —and all the people have said, Amen. <sup>24</sup> `Cursed is he who is smiting his neighbour in secret, —and all the people have said, Amen. ²⁵ `Cursed is he who is taking a bribe to smite a person, innocent blood, —and all the people have said, Amen. <sup>26</sup> `Cursed is he who doth not establish the words of this law, to do them, —and all the people have said, Amen.

¹⁵ `And it hath been, if thou dost not hearken unto the voice of Jehovah thy God to observe to do all His commands, and His statutes, which I am commanding thee to-day, that all these revilings have come upon thee, and overtaken thee:

¹⁹ `I have caused to testify against you to-day the heavens and the earth; life and death I have set before thee, the blessing and the reviling; and thou hast fixed on life, so that thou dost live, thou and thy seed,

¹⁶ `And they and our fathers have acted proudly, and harden their neck, and have not hearkened unto Thy commands,

²⁹ and dost testify against them, to bring them back unto Thy law; and they—they have acted proudly, and have not hearkened to Thy commands, and against Thy judgments have sinned, —which man doth and hath lived in them—and they give a refractory shoulder, and their neck have hardened, and have not hearkened.

¹¹ Scatter abroad the wrath of thine anger, And see every proud one, and make him low. ¹² See every proud one—humble him, And tread down the wicked in their place.

¹¹⁰ The wicked have laid a snare for me, And from thy precepts I wandered not.

⁶ For high is Jehovah, and the lowly He seeth, And the haughty from afar He knoweth.

¹¹ The haughty eyes of man have been humbled, And bowed down hath been the loftiness of men, And set on high hath Jehovah alone been in that day. ¹² For a day is to Jehovah of Hosts, For every proud and high one, And for every lifted up and low one,

¹² And it hath come to pass, When the Lord doth fulfil all His work In mount Zion and in Jerusalem, I see concerning the fruit of the greatness Of the heart of the king of Asshur. And concerning the glory of the height of his eyes.

²⁴ Who hath given Jacob for a spoil, And Israel to the spoilers? Is it not Jehovah—He against whom we sinned? Yea, they have not been willing in His ways to walk, Nor have they hearkened to His law.

²⁸ And I pollute princes of the sanctuary, And I give Jacob to destruction, and Israel to revilings!

⁹ `Have ye forgotten the wickedness of your fathers, and the wickedness of the kings of Judah, and the wickedness of their wives, and your own wickedness, and the wickedness of your wives, that they have done in the land of Judah, and in streets of Jerusalem? <sup>10</sup> They have not been humbled unto this day, nor have they been afraid, nor have they walked in My law, and in My statutes, that I have set before you and before your fathers. <sup>11</sup> `Therefore, thus said Jehovah of Hosts, God of Israel: Lo, I am setting my face against you for evil, even to cut off all Judah,

¹⁶ `The word that thou hast spoken unto us in the name of Jehovah—we are not hearkening unto thee;

²⁸ `And the escaped of the sword turn back out of the land of Egypt to the land of Judah, few in number, and known have all the remnant of Judah who are coming into the land of Egypt to sojourn there, whose word is established, Mine or theirs. <sup>29</sup> `And this is to you the sign—an affirmation of Jehovah—that I am seeing after you in this place, so that ye know that My words are certainly established against you for evil;

² `Son of man, say to the leader of Tyre: Thus said the Lord Jehovah: Because thy heart hath been high, And thou dost say: A god I am, The habitation of God I have inhabited, In the heart of the seas, And thou art man, and not God, And thou givest out thy heart as the heart of God, <sup>3</sup> Lo, thou art wiser than Daniel, No hidden thing have they concealed from thee. <sup>4</sup> By thy wisdom and by thine understanding Thou hast made for thee wealth, And makest gold and silver in thy treasuries. <sup>5</sup> By the abundance of thy wisdom, Through thy merchandise, Thou hast multiplied thy wealth, And high is thy heart through thy wealth. <sup>6</sup> Therefore, thus said the Lord Jehovah: Because of thy giving out thy heart as the heart of God, <sup>7</sup> Therefore, lo, I am bringing in against thee strangers, The terrible of the nations, And they have drawn out their swords Against the beauty of thy wisdom, And they have pierced thy brightness. <sup>8</sup> To destruction they bring thee down, Thou diest by the deaths of the wounded, in the heart of the seas. <sup>9</sup> Dost thou really say, `I am God,' Before him who is slaying thee? And thou art man, and not God, In the hand of him who is piercing thee. ¹⁰ The deaths of the uncircumcised thou diest, By the hand of strangers, for I have spoken, An affirmation of the Lord Jehovah.'

³⁷ `Now, I, Nebuchadnezzar, am praising and exalting and honouring the King of the heavens, for all His works are truth, and His paths judgment, and those walking in pride He is able to humble.'

²² `And thou, his son, Belshazzar, hast not humbled thy heart, though all this thou hast known; <sup>23</sup> and against the Lord of the heavens thou hast lifted up thyself; and the vessels of His house they have brought in before thee, and thou, and thy great men, thy wives, and thy concubines, are drinking wine with them, and gods of silver, and of gold, of brass, of iron, of wood, and of stone, that are not seeing, nor hearing, nor knowing, thou hast praised: and the God in whose hand is thy breath, and all thy ways, Him thou hast not honoured. <sup>24</sup> `Then from before Him sent is the extremity of the hand, and the writing is noted down;

¹ For, lo, the day hath come, burning as a furnace, And all the proud, and every wicked doer, have been stubble, And burnt them hath the day that came, Said Jehovah of Hosts, That there is not left to them root or branch,

¹¹ because every one who is exalting himself shall be humbled, and he who is humbling himself shall be exalted.'

¹⁴ I say to you, this one went down declared righteous, to his house, rather than that one: for every one who is exalting himself shall be humbled, and he who is humbling himself shall be exalted.'

¹³ Christ did redeem us from the curse of the law, having become for us a curse, for it hath been written, `Cursed is every one who is hanging on a tree,'

⁶ and greater grace he doth give, wherefore he saith, `God against proud ones doth set Himself up, and to lowly ones He doth give grace?'

⁵ In like manner, ye younger, be subject to elders, and all to one another subjecting yourselves; with humble-mindedness clothe yourselves, because God the proud doth resist, but to the humble He doth give grace;

¹⁰ And Nabal answereth the servants of David and saith, `Who is David, and who the son of Jesse? to-day have servants been multiplied who are breaking away each from his master;

³⁹ and David heareth that Nabal is dead, and saith, `Blessed is Jehovah who hath pleaded the cause of my reproach from the hand of Nabal, and His servant hath kept back from evil, and the wickedness of Nabal hath Jehovah turned back on his own head;' and David sendeth and speaketh with Abigail, to take her to him for a wife.

⁷ And thus said Shimei in his reviling, `Go out, go out, O man of blood, and man of worthlessness! ⁸ Jehovah hath turned back on thee all the blood of the house of Saul, in whose stead thou hast reigned, and Jehovah doth give the kingdom in to the hand of Absalom thy son; and lo, thou art in thine evil, for a man of blood thou art .'

²⁰ My interpreter is my friend, Unto God hath mine eye dropped:

² Till when do ye afflict my soul, And bruise me with words? ³ These ten times ye put me to shame, ye blush not. Ye make yourselves strange to me—

³ Trust in Jehovah, and do good, Dwell in the land, and enjoy faithfulness,

⁶ And hath brought out as light thy righteousness, And thy judgment as noon-day.

⁸ From all my transgressions deliver me, A reproach of the fool make me not.

¹⁰ With a sword in my bones Have mine adversaries reproached me, In their saying unto me all the day, `Where is thy God?'

⁹ A shower of free-will gifts thou shakest out, O God. Thine inheritance, when it hath been weary, Thou hast established it. ¹⁰ Thy company have dwelt in it, Thou preparest in Thy goodness for the poor, O God. ¹¹ The Lord doth give the saying, The female proclaimers are a numerous host.

¹⁹ Blessed is the Lord, day by day He layeth on us. God Himself is our salvation. Selah. ²⁰ God Himself is to us a God for deliverances, And Jehovah Lord hath the outgoings of death.

³⁹ Remove my reproach that I have feared, For Thy judgments are good.

⁴² And I answer him who is reproaching me a word, For I have trusted in Thy word.

³ Favour us, O Jehovah, favour us, For greatly have we been filled with contempt, ⁴ Greatly hath our soul been filled With the scorning of the easy ones, With the contempt of the arrogant!

¹³ now, then, may we go forth unto him without the camp, his reproach bearing;

²⁰ for what renown is it, if sinning and being buffeted, ye do endure it ? but if, doing good and suffering for it, ye do endure, this is gracious with God,

¹⁶ having a good conscience, that in that in which they speak against you as evil-doers, they may be ashamed who are traducing your good behaviour in Christ; ¹⁷ for it is better doing good, if the will of God will it, to suffer, than doing evil;

¹⁴ if ye be reproached in the name of Christ—happy are ye, because the Spirit of glory and of God upon you doth rest; in regard, indeed, to them, he is evil-spoken of, and in regard to you, he is glorified; ¹⁵ for let none of you suffer as a murderer, or thief, or evil-doer, or as an inspector into other men's matters; ¹⁶ and if as a Christian, let him not be ashamed; and let him glorify God in this respect;

³¹ for all the days that the son of Jesse liveth on the ground thou art not established, thou and thy kingdom; and now, send and bring him unto me, for he is a son of death.'

⁷ And Saul saith to his servants who are standing by him, `Hear, I pray you, ye Benjamites; also to all of you doth the son of Jesse give fields and vineyards! all of you he doth appoint heads of thousands and heads of hundreds! <sup>8</sup> for ye have conspired all of you against me, and there is none uncovering mine ear about my son's covenanting with the son of Jesse, and there is none of you grieving for me, and uncovering mine ear, that my son hath raised up my servant against me, to lie in wait as at this day.' <sup>9</sup> And answer doth Doeg the Edomite, who is set over the servants of Saul, and saith, `I have seen the son of Jesse coming in to Nob, unto Ahimelech son of Ahitub, ¹⁰ and he asketh for him at Jehovah, and provision hath given to him, and the sword of Goliath the Philistine hath given to him. ¹¹ And the king sendeth to call Ahimelech son of Ahitub, the priest, and all the house of his father, the priests, who are in Nob, and they come all of them unto the king; ¹² and Saul saith, `Hear, I pray thee, son of Ahitub;' and he saith, `Here am I, my lord.' ¹³ And Saul saith unto him, `Why have ye conspired against me, thou and the son of Jesse, by thy giving to him bread and a sword, and to ask for him at God, to rise against me, to lie in wait, as at this day?'

¹ Why have nations tumultuously assembled? And do peoples meditate vanity? ² Station themselves do kings of the earth, And princes have been united together, Against Jehovah, and against His Messiah:

⁶⁶ And when it became day there was gathered together the eldership of the people, chief priests also, and scribes, and they led him up to their own sanhedrim,

¹ And having risen, the whole multitude of them did lead him to Pilate, ² and began to accuse him, saying, `This one we found perverting the nation, and forbidding to give tribute to Caesar, saying himself to be Christ a king.'

¹⁰ And the chief priests and the scribes stood vehemently accusing him, ¹¹ and Herod with his soldiers having set him at nought, and having mocked, having put around him gorgeous apparel, did send him back to Pilate,

¹⁸ `And it hath been, when he sitteth on the throne of his kingdom, that he hath written for himself the copy of this law, on a book, from that before the priests the Levites, ¹⁹ and it hath been with him, and he hath read in it all days of his life, so that he doth learn to fear Jehovah his God, to keep all the words of this law, and these statutes, to do them; ²⁰ so that his heart is not high above his brethren, and so as not to turn aside from the command, right or left, so that he prolongeth days over his kingdom, he and his sons, in the midst of Israel.

⁸ the book of this law doth not depart out of thy mouth, and thou hast meditated in it by day and by night, so that thou dost observe to do according to all that is written in it, for then thou dost cause thy way to prosper, and then thou dost act wisely.

¹¹ Also—Thy servant is warned by them, `In keeping them is a great reward.'

⁹² Unless Thy law were my delights, Then had I perished in mine affliction.

⁹⁷ Mem. O how I have loved Thy law! All the day it is my meditation.
⁹⁸ Than mine enemies Thy command maketh me wiser, For it is before me to the age. ⁹⁹ Above all my teachers I have acted wisely. For Thy testimonies are my meditation. ¹⁰⁰ Above elders I understand more, For Thy precepts I have kept.

¹⁴³ Adversity and distress have found me, Thy commands are my delights.

²⁰ Keep, my son, the command of thy father, And leave not the law of thy mother. ²¹ Bind them on thy heart continually, Tie them on thy neck. ²² In thy going up and down, it leadeth thee, In thy lying down, it watcheth over thee, And thou hast awaked—it talketh with thee. ²³ For a lamp is the command, And the law a light, And a way of life are reproofs of instruction,

²⁰ To the law and to the testimony! If not, let them say after this manner, `That there is no dawn to it.'

¹⁰ To whom do I speak, and testify, and they hear? Lo, their ear is uncircumcised, And they are not able to attend. Lo, a word of Jehovah hath been to them for a reproach, They delight not in it.

⁶ `And Jehovah thy God hath circumcised thy heart, and the heart of thy seed, to love Jehovah thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, for the sake of thy life;

²⁷ For Thou, Jehovah of Hosts, God of Israel, Thou hast uncovered the ear of Thy servant, saying, A house I build for thee, therefore hath Thy servant found his heart to pray unto Thee this prayer; ²⁸ And now, Lord Jehovah, Thou art God Himself, and Thy words are truth, and Thou speakest unto Thy servant this goodness, ²⁹ And now, begin and bless the house of Thy servant, to be unto the age before Thee, for Thou, Lord Jehovah, hast spoken, and by Thy blessing is the house of Thy servant blessed—to the age.'

¹⁵ Dried up as an earthen vessel is my power, And my tongue is cleaving to my jaws.

²⁵ For bowed to the dust hath our soul, Cleaved to the earth hath our belly.

²⁰ Because Thou hast showed me many and sad distresses, Thou turnest back—Thou revivest me, And from the depths of the earth, Thou turnest back—Thou bringest me up.

¹⁸ And we do not go back from Thee, Thou dost revive us, and in Thy name we call.

³⁷ Remove mine eyes from seeing vanity, In Thy way quicken Thou me.

⁸⁸ According to Thy kindness quicken Thou me, And I keep the testimony of Thy mouth!

⁹³ To the age I forget not Thy precepts, For by them Thou hast quickened me.

¹⁰⁷ I have been afflicted very much, O Jehovah, quicken me, according to Thy word.

¹⁴⁹ My voice hear, according to Thy kindness, Jehovah, according to Thy judgment quicken me.

¹⁵⁶ Thy mercies are many, O Jehovah, According to Thy judgments quicken me.

¹¹ For Thy name's sake O Jehovah, Thou dost quicken me, In Thy righteousness, Thou bringest out from distress my soul,

²⁵ Wolf and lamb do feed as one, And a lion as an ox eateth straw, As to the serpent—dust is its food, They do no evil, nor destroy, In all My holy mountain, said Jehovah!

²³ and he having turned, said to Peter, `Get thee behind me, adversary! thou art a stumbling-block to me, for thou dost not mind the things of God, but the things of men.'

² for the law of the Spirit of the life in Christ Jesus did set me free from the law of the sin and of the death; ³ for what the law was not able to do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God, His own Son having sent in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, did condemn the sin in the flesh,

¹⁹ whose end is destruction, whose god is the belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who the things on earth are minding.

² the things above mind ye, not the things upon the earth,

³⁶ then Thou dost hear in the heavens, and hast forgiven the sin of Thy servants, and of Thy people Israel, for Thou directest them the good way in which they go, and hast given rain on Thy land which Thou hast given to Thy people for inheritance.

⁴ Thy ways, O Jehovah, cause me to know, Thy paths teach Thou me.

⁸ Good and upright is Jehovah, Therefore He directeth sinners in the way. ⁹ He causeth the humble to tread in judgment, And teacheth the humble His way.

¹¹ Shew me, O Jehovah, Thy way, And lead me in a path of uprightness, For the sake of my beholders.

⁵ My sin I cause Thee to know, And mine iniquity I have not covered. I have said, `I confess concerning My transgressions to Jehovah,' And Thou—Thou hast taken away, The iniquity of my sin. Selah.

¹⁸ For mine iniquity I declare, I am sorry for my sin.

¹ To the Overseer. —A Psalm of David, in the coming in unto him of Nathan the prophet, when he hath gone in unto Bath-Sheba. Favour me, O God, according to Thy kindness, According to the abundance of Thy mercies, Blot out my transgressions. ² Thoroughly wash me from mine iniquity, And from my sin cleanse me, ³ For my transgressions I do know, And my sin is before me continually. ⁴ Against Thee, Thee only, I have sinned, And done the evil thing in Thine eyes, So that Thou art righteous in Thy words, Thou art pure in Thy judging. ⁵ Lo, in iniquity I have been brought forth, And in sin doth my mother conceive me. ⁶ Lo, truth Thou hast desired in the inward parts, And in the hidden part Wisdom Thou causest me to know.
⁷ Thou cleansest me with hyssop and I am clean, Washest me, and than snow I am whiter. ⁸ Thou causest me to hear joy and gladness, Thou makest joyful bones Thou hast bruised. ⁹ Hide Thy face from my sin. And all mine iniquities blot out. ¹⁰ A clean heart prepare for me, O God, And a right spirit renew within me. ¹¹ Cast me not forth from Thy presence, And Thy Holy Spirit take not from me. ¹² Restore to me the joy of Thy salvation, And a willing spirit doth sustain me. ¹³ I teach transgressors Thy ways, And sinners unto Thee do return.
¹⁴ Deliver me from blood, O God, God of my salvation, My tongue singeth of Thy righteousness. ¹⁵ O Lord, my lips thou dost open, And my mouth declareth Thy praise. ¹⁶ For Thou desirest not sacrifice, or I give it, Burnt-offering Thou acceptest not. ¹⁷ The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit, A heart broken and bruised, O God, Thou dost not despise. ¹⁸ Do good in Thy good pleasure with Zion, Thou dost build the walls of Jerusalem. ¹⁹ Then Thou desirest sacrifices of righteousness, Burnt-offering, and whole burnt-offering, Then they offer bullocks on thine altar!

¹³ Whoso is covering his transgressions prospereth not, And he who is confessing and forsaking hath mercy.

¹⁴ `And it hath been, when thy son asketh thee hereafter, saying, What is this? that thou hast said unto him, By strength of hand hath Jehovah brought us out from Egypt, from a house of servants; ¹⁵ yea, it cometh to pass, when Pharaoh hath been pained to send us away, that Jehovah doth slay every first-born in the land of Egypt, from the first-born of man even unto the first-born of beast; therefore I am sacrificing to Jehovah all opening a womb who are males, and every first-born of my sons I ransom;

⁶ so that this is a sign in your midst, when your children ask hereafter, saying, What are these stones to you? ⁷ that ye have said to them, Because the waters of the Jordan were cut off, at the presence of the ark of the covenant of Jehovah; in its passing over into the Jordan were the waters of the Jordan cut off; and these stones have been for a memorial to the sons of Israel—to the age.'

¹⁷ God, Thou hast taught me from my youth, And hitherto I declare Thy wonders.

⁴ We do not hide from their sons, To a later generation recounting praises of Jehovah, And His strength, and His wonders that He hath done.

² Sing ye to Him—sing praise to Him, Meditate ye on all His wonders.

⁴ A memorial He hath made of His wonders, Gracious and merciful is Jehovah.

⁵ The honour—the glory of Thy majesty, And the matters of Thy wonders I declare. ⁶ And the strength of Thy fearful acts they tell, And Thy greatness I recount.

¹¹ Cretes and Arabians, we did hear them speaking in our tongues the great things of God.'

³ and they sing the song of Moses, servant of God, and the song of the Lamb, saying, `Great and wonderful are Thy works, O Lord God, the Almighty, righteous and true are Thy ways, O King of saints,

²⁵ Iron and brass are thy shoes, And as thy days—thy strength.

¹¹ And we hear, and melt doth our heart, and there hath not stood any more spirit in any man, from your presence, for Jehovah your God, He is God in the heavens above, and on the earth beneath.

²⁴ and they say unto Joshua, `Surely Jehovah hath given into our hand all the land; and also, all the inhabitants of the land have melted at our presence.'

² He doth send thy help from the sanctuary, And from Zion doth support thee,

¹⁴ As waters I have been poured out, And separated themselves have all my bones, My heart hath been like wax, It is melted in the midst of my bowels.

¹⁴ Look unto Jehovah—be strong, And He doth strengthen thy heart, Yea, look unto Jehovah!

¹¹ Jehovah strength to his people giveth, Jehovah blesseth His people with peace!

²⁶ They go up to the heavens, they go down to the depths, Their soul in evil is melted.

²⁹ He is giving power to the weary, And to those not strong He increaseth might.

³¹ But those expecting Jehovah pass to power, They raise up the pinion as eagles, They run and are not fatigued, They go on and do not faint!

¹² And I have made them mighty in Jehovah, And in His name they walk up and down, An affirmation of Jehovah!

¹⁶ that He may give to you, according to the riches of His glory, with might to be strengthened through His Spirit, in regard to the inner man,

¹⁰ And the God of all grace, who did call you to His age-during glory in Christ Jesus, having suffered a little, Himself make you perfect, establish, strengthen, settle you;

⁵ O that my ways were prepared to keep Thy statutes,

¹⁰⁴ From Thy precepts I have understanding, Therefore I have hated every false path!

¹⁶³ Falsehood I have hated, yea I abominate it, Thy law I have loved.

³ Set, O Jehovah, a watch for my mouth, Watch Thou over the door of my lips. ⁴ Incline not my heart to an evil thing, To do habitually actions in wickedness, With men working iniquity, Yea, I eat not of their pleasant things.

⁸ Vanity and a lying word put far from me, Poverty or wealth give not to me, Cause me to eat the bread of my portion,

²⁰ Feeding on ashes, the heart is deceived, It hath turned him aside, And he delivereth not his soul, nor saith: `Is there not a lie in my right hand?'

¹⁹ O Jehovah, my strength, and my fortress, And my refuge in a day of adversity, Unto Thee nations do come from the ends of earth, And say, Only falsehood did our fathers inherit, Vanity, and none among them is profitable.

³³ For this is the covenant that I make, With the house of Israel, after those days, An affirmation of Jehovah, I have given My law in their inward part, And on their heart I do write it, And I have been to them for God, And they are to me for a people. ³⁴ And they do not teach any more Each his neighbour, and each his brother, Saying, Know ye Jehovah, For they all know Me, from their least unto their greatest, An affirmation of Jehovah; For I pardon their iniquity, And of their sin I make mention no more.

⁸ Those observing lying vanities their own mercy forsake.

²² ye are to put off concerning the former behaviour the old man, that is corrupt according to the desires of the deceit, ²³ and to be renewed in the spirit of your mind, ²⁴ and to put on the new man, which, according to God, was created in righteousness and kindness of the truth. ²⁵ Wherefore, putting away the lying, speak truth each with his neighbour, because we are members one of another;

¹⁰ because this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel, after those days, saith the Lord, giving My laws into their mind, and upon their hearts I will write them, and I will be to them for a God, and they shall be to Me for a people; ¹¹ and they shall not teach each his neighbour, and each his brother, saying, Know thou the Lord, because they shall all know Me from the small one of them unto the great one of them,

⁸ if we may say—`we have not sin,' ourselves we lead astray, and the truth is not in us;

⁴ he who is saying, `I have known him,' and his command is not keeping, a liar he is, and in him the truth is not;

¹⁵ and without are the dogs, and the sorcerers, and the whoremongers, and the murderers, and the idolaters, and every one who is loving and is doing a lie.

¹⁸ `And ye have placed these my words on your heart, and on your soul, and have bound them for a sign on your hand, and they have been for frontlets between your eyes; ¹⁹ and ye have taught them to your sons, by speaking of them in thy sitting in thy house, and in thy going in the way, and in thy lying down, and in thy rising up, ²⁰ and hast written them on the side-posts of thy house, and on thy gates,

²⁹ The way of falsehood turn aside from me And with Thy law favour me.

⁵² I remembered Thy judgments of old, O Jehovah, And I comfort myself.

²⁹ Because that they have hated knowledge, And the fear of Jehovah have not chosen.

⁴² but of one thing there is need, and Mary the good part did choose, that shall not be taken away from her.'

¹⁹ `And this is the judgment, that the light hath come to the world, and men did love the darkness rather than the light, for their works were evil; ²⁰ for every one who is doing wicked things hateth the light, and doth not come unto the light, that his works may not be detected; ²¹ but he who is doing the truth doth come to the light, that his works may be manifested, that in God they are having been wrought.'

⁴⁵ `And because I say the truth, ye do not believe me.

² as new-born babes the word's pure milk desire ye, that in it ye may grow,

⁴ I rejoiced exceedingly that I have found of thy children walking in truth, even as a command we did receive from the Father;

⁴ and ye who are cleaving to Jehovah your God, are alive, all of you, to-day.

²⁰ `Jehovah thy God thou dost fear, Him thou dost serve, and to Him thou dost cleave, and by His name thou dost swear.

² My God, in Thee I have trusted, Let me not be ashamed, Let not mine enemies exult over me.

²⁰ Keep my soul, and deliver me, Let me not be ashamed, for I trusted in Thee.

¹¹⁵ Turn aside from me, ye evil-doers, And I keep the commands of my God.

²³ Truth buy, and sell not, Wisdom, and instruction, and understanding,

¹⁷ Israel hath been saved in Jehovah, A salvation age-during! Ye are not ashamed nor confounded Unto the ages of eternity!

²³ And kings have been thy nursing fathers, And their princesses thy nursing mothers; Face to the earth—they bow down to thee, And the dust of thy feet they lick up, And thou hast known that I am Jehovah, That those expecting Me are not ashamed.

¹⁸ Let my pursuers be ashamed, and let not me be ashamed—me! Let them be affrighted, and let not me be affrighted—me! Bring in on them a day of evil, And a second time with destruction destroy them.

³¹ Jesus, therefore, said unto the Jews who believed in him, `If ye may remain in my word, truly my disciples ye are, and ye shall know the truth,

²³ who, having come, and having seen the grace of God, was glad, and was exhorting all with purpose of heart to cleave to the Lord,

⁵ and the hope doth not make ashamed, because the love of God hath been poured forth in our hearts through the Holy Spirit that hath been given to us.

²⁹ And God giveth wisdom to Solomon, and understanding, very much, and breadth of heart, as the sand that is on the edge of the sea;

¹⁵ He draweth out the afflicted in his affliction, And uncovereth in oppression their ear. ¹⁶ And also He moved thee from a strait place, To a broad place—no straitness under it, And the sitting beyond of thy table Hath been full of fatness.

³⁶ Thou enlargest my step under me, And mine ankles have not slidden.

⁴⁵ And I walk habitually in a broad place, For Thy precepts I have sought.

⁴ Draw me: after thee we run, The king hath brought me into his inner chambers, We do joy and rejoice in thee, We mention thy loves more than wine, Uprightly they have loved thee!

⁵ Then thou seest, and hast become bright, And thine heart hath been afraid and enlarged, For turn unto thee doth the multitude of the sea, The forces of nations do come to thee.

¹ The Spirit of the Lord Jehovah is on me, Because Jehovah did anoint me To proclaim tidings to the humble, He sent me to bind the broken of heart, To proclaim to captives liberty, And to bound ones an opening of bands.

⁷⁴ To give to us, without fear, Out of the hand of our enemies having been delivered, ⁷⁵ To serve Him, in holiness and righteousness Before Him, all the days of our life.

³² and the truth shall make you free.'

³⁶ if then the son may make you free, in reality ye shall be free.

²⁴ have ye not known that those running in a race—all indeed run, but one doth receive the prize? so run ye, that ye may obtain; ²⁵ and every one who is striving, is in all things temperate; these, indeed, then, that a corruptible crown they may receive, but we an incorruptible; ²⁶ I, therefore, thus run, not as uncertainly, thus I fight, as not beating air;

¹⁷ And the Lord is the Spirit; and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty;

¹¹ Our mouth hath been open unto you, O Corinthians, our heart hath been enlarged!

¹ Therefore, we also having so great a cloud of witnesses set around us, every weight having put off, and the closely besetting sin, through endurance may we run the contest that is set before us,

¹⁶ as free, and not having the freedom as the cloak of the evil, but as servants of God;

⁸ Thy statutes I keep, leave me not utterly!

¹¹² I have inclined my heart To do Thy statutes, to the age—to the end!

¹³ And all thy sons are taught of Jehovah, And abundant is the peace of thy sons.

²² and ye shall be hated by all because of my name, but he who hath endured to the end, he shall be saved.

¹³ but he who did endure to the end, he shall be saved;

⁷ so that ye are not behind in any gift, waiting for the revelation of our Lord Jesus Christ, ⁸ who also shall confirm you unto the end—unblamable in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ;

⁶ having been confident of this very thing, that He who did begin in you a good work, will perform it till a day of Jesus Christ,

¹⁹ out of us they went forth, but they were not of us, for if they had been of us, they would have remained with us; but—that they might be manifested that they are not all of us.
²⁰ And ye have an anointing from the Holy One, and have known all things;

²⁶ and he who is overcoming, and who is keeping unto the end my works, I will give to him authority over the nations,

⁶ and ye have kept and done them (for it is your wisdom and your understanding) before the eyes of the peoples who hear all these statutes, and they have said, Only, a people wise and understanding is this great nation.

²⁸ And He saith to man: —`Lo, fear of the Lord, that is wisdom, And to turn from evil is understanding.'

¹⁰ The beginning of wisdom is fear of Jehovah, Good understanding have all doing them, His praise is standing for ever!

⁵ Then understandest thou fear of Jehovah, And knowledge of God thou findest. ⁶ For Jehovah giveth wisdom, From His mouth knowledge and understanding.

¹⁹ `Whoever therefore may loose one of these commands—the least—and may teach men so, least he shall be called in the reign of the heavens, but whoever may do and may teach them, he shall be called great in the reign of the heavens.

²⁴ `Therefore, every one who doth hear of me these words, and doth do them, I will liken him to a wise man who built his house upon the rock;

¹⁷ if any one may will to do His will, he shall know concerning the teaching, whether it is of God, or—I do speak from myself.

⁵ and if any of you do lack wisdom, let him ask from God, who is giving to all liberally, and not reproaching, and it shall be given to him;

⁸ If, indeed, royal law ye complete, according to the Writing, `Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself,' —ye do well; <sup>9</sup> and if ye accept persons, sin ye do work, being convicted by the law as transgressors; <sup>10</sup> for whoever the whole law shall keep, and shall stumble in one point, he hath become guilty of all; <sup>11</sup> for He who is saying, `Thou mayest not commit adultery,' said also, `Thou mayest do no murder;' and if thou shalt not commit adultery, and shalt commit murder, thou hast become a transgressor of law; ¹² so speak ye and so do, as about by a law of liberty to be judged,

¹³ Who is wise and intelligent among you? let him shew out of the good behaviour his works in meekness of wisdom, ¹⁴ and if bitter zeal ye have, and rivalry in your heart, glory not, nor lie against the truth; ¹⁵ this wisdom is not descending from above, but earthly, physical, demon-like, ¹⁶ for where zeal and rivalry are, there is insurrection and every evil matter; ¹⁷ and the wisdom from above, first, indeed, is pure, then peaceable, gentle, easily entreated, full of kindness and good fruits, uncontentious, and unhypocritical: — ¹⁸ and the fruit of the righteousness in peace is sown to those making peace.

¹¹ Speak not one against another, brethren; he who is speaking against a brother, and is judging his brother, doth speak against law, and doth judge law, and if law thou dost judge, thou art not a doer of law but a judge;

¹⁷ Her ways are ways of pleasantness, And all her paths are peace.

¹¹ In a way of wisdom I have directed thee, I have caused thee to tread in paths of uprightness.

¹⁸ And the path of the righteous is as a shining light, Going and brightening till the day is established,

²⁰ In a path of righteousness I cause to walk, In midst of paths of judgment,

³ And gone have many peoples and said, `Come, and we go up unto the mount of Jehovah, Unto the house of the God of Jacob, And He doth teach us of His ways, And we walk in His paths, For from Zion goeth forth a law, And a word of Jehovah from Jerusalem.

¹³ If thou dost turn from the sabbath thy foot, Doing thine own pleasure on My holy day, And hast cried to the sabbath, `A delight,' To the holy of Jehovah, `Honoured,' And hast honoured it, without doing thine own ways, Without finding thine own pleasure, And speaking a word. ¹⁴ Then dost thou delight thyself on Jehovah, And I have caused thee to ride on high places of earth, And have caused thee to eat the inheritance of Jacob thy father, For the mouth of Jehovah hath spoken!

²⁶ And I have given to you a new heart, And a new spirit I give in your midst, And I have turned aside the heart of stone out of your flesh, And I have given to you a heart of flesh. ²⁷ And My Spirit I give in your midst, And I have done this, so that in My statutes ye walk, And My judgments ye keep, and have done them.

¹³ for God it is who is working in you both to will and to work for His good pleasure.

²¹ `And thou—thou dost provide out of all the people men of ability, fearing God, men of truth, hating dishonest gain, and hast placed these over them, heads of thousands, heads of hundreds, heads of fifties, and heads of tens,

⁵⁸ to incline our heart unto Himself, to walk in all His ways, and to keep His commands, and His statutes, and His judgments, which He commanded our fathers;

³ Because the wicked hath boasted Of the desire of his soul, And a dishonest gainer he hath blessed, He hath despised Jehovah.

⁴ Incline not my heart to an evil thing, To do habitually actions in wickedness, With men working iniquity, Yea, I eat not of their pleasant things.

³⁹ and I have given to them one heart, and one way, to fear Me all the days, for good to them, and to their sons after them:

¹⁹ And I have given to them one heart, And a new spirit I do give in your midst, And I have turned the heart of stone out of their flesh, And I have given to them a heart of flesh. ²⁰ So that in My statutes they walk, And My judgments they keep, and have done them, And they have been to me for a people, And I am to them for God.

³¹ And they come in unto thee as the coming in of a people, And they sit before thee—My people, And have heard thy words, and they do them not, For doting loves with their mouth they are making, After their dishonest gain their heart is going.

⁹ Woe to him who is gaining evil gain for his house, To set on high his nest, To be delivered from the hand of evil,

²¹ for from within, out of the heart of men, the evil reasonings do come forth, adulteries, whoredoms, murders, ²² thefts, covetous desires, wickedness, deceit, arrogance, an evil eye, evil speaking, pride, foolishness;

¹⁵ And he said unto them, `Observe, and beware of the covetousness, because not in the abundance of one's goods is his life.'

¹⁴ And also the Pharisees, being lovers of money, were hearing all these things, and were deriding him,

³ and whoredom, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not even be named among you, as becometh saints;

⁵ Put to death, then, your members that are upon the earth—whoredom, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and the covetousness, which is idolatry—

⁹ and those wishing to be rich, do fall into temptation and a snare, and many desires, foolish and hurtful, that sink men into ruin and destruction, ¹⁰ for a root of all the evils is the love of money, which certain longing for did go astray from the faith, and themselves did pierce through with many sorrows;

¹⁷ Those rich in the present age charge thou not to be high-minded, nor to hope in the uncertainty of riches, but in the living God, who is giving to us all things richly for enjoyment; —

⁵ Without covetousness the behaviour, being content with the things present, for He hath said, `No, I will not leave, no, nor forsake thee,'

³ and in covetousness, with moulded words, of you they shall make merchandise, whose judgment of old is not idle, and their destruction doth not slumber.

¹⁴ having eyes full of adultery, and unable to cease from sin, enticing unstable souls, having an heart exercised in covetousnesses, children of a curse,

³⁹ and it hath been to you for a fringe, and ye have seen it, and have remembered all the commands of Jehovah, and have done them, and ye search not after your heart, and after your eyes, after which ye are going a-whoring;

²¹ and I see among the spoil a goodly robe of Shinar, and two hundred shekels of silver, and one wedge of gold, whose weight is fifty shekels, and I desire them, and take them; and lo, they are hid in the earth, in the midst of my tent, and the silver under it.'

² and it cometh to pass, at evening-time, that David riseth from off his couch, and walketh up and down on the roof of the king's house, and seeth from the roof a woman bathing, and the woman is of very good appearance,

¹ A covenant I made for mine eyes, And what—do I attend to a virgin?

²⁵ Daleth. Cleaved to the dust hath my soul, Quicken me according to Thy word.

²⁵ Thine eyes do look straightforward, And thine eyelids look straight before thee.

⁵ For wealth maketh to itself wings, As an eagle it flieth to the heavens.

¹⁵ Whoso is walking righteously, And is speaking uprightly, Kicking against gain of oppressions, Shaking his hands from taking hold on a bribe, Stopping his ear from hearing of blood, And shutting his eyes from looking on evil,

²⁸ but I—I say to you, that every one who is looking on a woman to desire her, did already commit adultery with her in his heart.

¹⁶ because all that is in the world—the desire of the flesh, and the desire of the eyes, and the ostentation of the life—is not of the Father, but of the world,

²⁵ `And now, Jehovah God, the word which Thou hast spoken concerning Thy servant, and concerning his house, establish unto the age, and do as Thou hast spoken; ²⁶ And Thy Name is great unto the age, saying, Jehovah of Hosts is God over Israel, and the house of Thy servant David is established before Thee,

¹¹ For, as the height of the heavens is above the earth, His kindness hath been mighty over those fearing Him.

¹³ As a father hath mercy on sons, Jehovah hath mercy on those fearing Him.

¹⁷ And the kindness of Jehovah Is from age even unto age on those fearing Him, And His righteousness to sons' sons,

⁴⁹ Zain. Remember the word to Thy servant, On which Thou hast caused me to hope.

¹⁹ The desire of those fearing Him He doth, And their cry He heareth, and saveth them.

¹¹ Jehovah is pleased with those fearing Him, With those waiting for His kindness.

³⁹ and I have given to them one heart, and one way, to fear Me all the days, for good to them, and to their sons after them: ⁴⁰ and I have made for them a covenant age-during, in that I turn not back from after them for My doing them good, and My fear I put in their heart, so as not to turn aside from me; ⁴¹ and I have rejoiced over them to do them good, and have planted them in this land in truth, with all my heart, and with all My soul.

²⁰ for as many as are promises of God, in him are the Yes, and in him the Amen, for glory to God through us;

⁸ and which is the great nation which hath righteous statutes and judgments according to all this law which I am setting before you to-day?

¹⁴ only, because thou hast caused the enemies of Jehovah greatly to despise by this thing, also the son who is born to thee doth surely die.'

⁹ The fear of Jehovah is clean, standing to the age, The judgments of Jehovah are true, They have been righteous—together.

³ He sendeth from the heaven, and saveth me, He reproached—who is panting after me. Selah. God sendeth forth His kindness and His truth.

²⁰ Broken hath my soul for desire Unto Thy judgments at all times.

⁴³ And Thou takest not utterly away From my mouth the word of truth, Because for Thy judgment I have hoped.

⁷⁵ I have known, O Jehovah, That righteous are Thy judgments, And in faithfulness Thou hast afflicted me.

¹²³ Mine eyes have been consumed for Thy salvation. And for the saying of Thy righteousness.

⁸ Also, in the path of Thy judgments, O Jehovah, we have waited for Thee, To Thy name and to Thy remembrance Is the desire of the soul.

² and we have known that the judgment of God is according to truth, upon those practising such things.

⁷ and it behoveth him also to have a good testimony from those without, that he may not fall into reproach and a snare of the devil.

¹⁴ I wish, therefore, younger ones to marry, to bear children, to be mistress of the house, to give no occasion to the opposer to reviling;

⁸ discourse sound, irreprehensible, that he who is of the contrary part may be ashamed, having nothing evil to say concerning you.

² because true and righteous are His judgments, because He did judge the great whore who did corrupt the earth in her whoredom, and He did avenge the blood of His servants at her hand;'

⁴¹ watch, and pray, that ye may not enter into temptation: the spirit indeed is forward, but the flesh weak.'

²⁴ and immediately the father of the child, having cried out, with tears said, `I believe, sir; be helping mine unbelief.'

²¹ `For, as the Father doth raise the dead, and doth make alive, so also the Son doth make alive whom he willeth;

¹⁰ `The thief doth not come, except that he may steal, and kill, and destroy; I came that they may have life, and may have it abundantly.

²⁴ A wretched man I am! who shall deliver me out of the body of this death?

⁴⁵ so also it hath been written, `The first man Adam became a living creature,' the last Adam is for a life-giving spirit,

¹ Having, then, these promises, beloved, may we cleanse ourselves from every pollution of flesh and spirit, perfecting sanctification in the fear of God;

¹⁷ for the flesh doth desire contrary to the Spirit, and the Spirit contrary to the flesh, and these are opposed one to another, that the things that ye may will—these ye may not do;

⁵ even being dead in the trespasses, did make us to live together with the Christ, (by grace ye are having been saved,)

¹³ brethren, I do not reckon myself to have laid hold; and one thing—the things behind indeed forgetting, and to the things before stretching forth— ¹⁴ to the mark I pursue for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.

² beloved, concerning all things I desire thee to prosper, and to be in health, even as thy soul doth prosper,

¹⁶ Answer me, O Jehovah, for good is Thy kindness, According to the abundance Of Thy mercies turn Thou unto me,

⁴ Remember me, O Jehovah, With the favour of Thy people, Look after me in Thy salvation. ⁵ To look on the good of Thy chosen ones, To rejoice in the joy of Thy nation, To boast myself with Thine inheritance.

⁷⁶ Let, I pray Thee, Thy kindness be to comfort me, According to Thy saying to Thy servant. ⁷⁷ Meet me do Thy mercies, and I live, For Thy law is my delight.

²⁸ then he took him in his arms, and blessed God, and he said, ²⁹ `Now Thou dost send away Thy servant, Lord, according to Thy word, in peace, ³⁰ because mine eyes did see Thy salvation, ³¹ which Thou didst prepare before the face of all the peoples, ³² a light to the uncovering of nations, and the glory of Thy people Israel.'

¹² `When thy days are full, and thou hast lain with thy fathers, then I have raised up thy seed after thee which goeth out from thy bowels, and have established his kingdom; ¹³ He doth build a house for My Name, and I have established the throne of his kingdom unto the age. ¹⁴ I am to him for a father, and he is to Me for a son; whom in his dealings perversely I have even reproved with a rod of men, and with strokes of the sons of Adam, ¹⁵ and My kindness doth not turn aside from him, as I turned it aside from Saul, whom I turned aside from before thee, ¹⁶ and stedfast is thy house and thy kingdom unto the age before thee, thy throne is established unto the age.'

¹⁸ And passed over hath the ferry-boat to carry over the household of the king, and to do that which is good in his eyes, and Shimei son of Gera hath fallen before the king in his passing over into Jordan, ¹⁹ and saith unto the king, `Let not my lord impute to me iniquity; neither do thou remember that which thy servant did perversely in the day that my lord the king went out from Jerusalem, —for the king to set it unto his heart; ²⁰ for thy servant hath known that I have sinned; and lo, I have come to-day, first of all the house of Joseph, to go down to meet my lord the king.'

³ and God hath said to me, Thou dost not build a house to My name, for a man of wars thou art, and blood thou hast shed. ⁴ `And Jehovah, God of Israel, doth fix on me out of all the house of my father to be for king over Israel to the age, for on Judah He hath fixed for a leader, and in the house of Judah, the house of my father, and among the sons of my father, on me, me He hath been pleased to make king over all Israel; ⁵ and out of all my sons—for many sons hath Jehovah given to me—He also fixeth on Solomon my son, to sit on the throne of the kingdom of Jehovah over Israel, ⁶ and saith to me, Solomon thy son, he doth build My house, and My courts, for I have fixed on him to Me for a son, and I—I am to him for a father,

² Many are saying of my soul, `There is no salvation for him in God.' Selah.

⁴ In God I praise His word, in God I have trusted, I fear not what flesh doth to me.

¹⁰ In God I praise the word, In Jehovah I praise the word. ¹¹ In God I trusted, I fear not what man doth to me,

¹⁰ For mine enemies have spoken against me, And those watching my soul have taken counsel together, ¹¹ Saying, `God hath forsaken him, Pursue and catch him, for there is no deliverer.'

¹⁹ Then Thou hast spoken in vision, To Thy saint, yea, Thou sayest, I have placed help upon a mighty one, Exalted a chosen one out of the people, ²⁰ I have found David My servant, With My holy oil I have anointed him. ²¹ With whom My hand is established, My arm also doth strengthen him. ²² An enemy exacteth not upon him, And a son of perverseness afflicteth him not. ²³ And I have beaten down before him his adversaries, And those hating him I plague, ²⁴ And My faithfulness and kindness are with him, And in My name is his horn exalted. ²⁵ And I have set on the sea his hand, And on the rivers his right hand. ²⁶ He proclaimeth me: `Thou art my Father, My God, and the rock of my salvation.' ²⁷ I also first-born do appoint him, Highest of the kings of the earth. ²⁸ To the age I keep for him My kindness, And My covenant is stedfast with him. ²⁹ And I have set his seed for ever, And his throne as the days of the heavens. ³⁰ If his sons forsake My law, And in My judgments do not walk; ³¹ If My statutes they pollute, And My commands do not keep, ³² I have looked after with a rod their transgression, And with strokes their iniquity, ³³ And My kindness I break not from him, Nor do I deal falsely in My faithfulness. ³⁴ I profane not My covenant, And that which is going forth from My lips I change not. ³⁵ Once I have sworn by My holiness, I lie not to David, ³⁶ His seed is to the age, And his throne is as the sun before Me, ³⁷ As the moon it is established—to the age, And the witness in the sky is stedfast. Selah.

²⁵ And I—I have been a reproach to them, They see me, they shake their head.

⁷⁴ Those fearing Thee see me and rejoice, Because for Thy word I have hoped.

⁸¹ Kaph. Consumed for Thy salvation hath been my soul, For Thy word I have hoped.

¹¹ Be wise, my son, and rejoice my heart. And I return my reproacher a word.

⁴⁰ and saying, `Thou that art throwing down the sanctuary, and in three days building it, save thyself; if Son thou art of God, come down from the cross.' <sup>41</sup> And in like manner also the chief priests mocking, with the scribes and elders, said, <sup>42</sup> `Others he saved; himself he is not able to save! If he be King of Israel, let him come down now from the cross, and we will believe him; ⁴³ he hath trusted on God, let Him now deliver him, if He wish him, because he said—Son of God I am;'

⁶³ saying, `Sir, we have remembered that that deceiver said while yet living, After three days I do rise;

²⁵ wherefore be of good cheer, men! for I believe God, that so it shall be, even as it hath been spoken to me,

⁶ Rise, O Jehovah, in Thine anger, Be lifted up at the wrath of mine adversaries, And awake Thou for me: Judgment Thou hast commanded: ⁷ And a company of peoples compass Thee, And over it on high turn Thou back, ⁸ Jehovah doth judge the peoples; Judge me, O Jehovah, According to my righteousness, And according to mine integrity on me, ⁹ Let, I pray Thee be ended the evil of the wicked, And establish Thou the righteous, And a trier of hearts and reins is the righteous God.

⁴ For Thou hast done my judgment and my right. Thou hast sat on a throne, A judge of righteousness.

¹⁶ Jehovah hath been known, Judgment He hath done, By a work of his hands Hath the wicked been snared. Meditation. Selah.

¹ Judge me, O God, And plead my cause against a nation not pious, From a man of deceit and perverseness Thou dost deliver me,

¹⁶ And to the wicked hath God said: What to thee—to recount My statutes? That thou liftest up My covenant on thy mouth?

¹⁴ Deliver me from blood, O God, God of my salvation, My tongue singeth of Thy righteousness. ¹⁵ O Lord, my lips thou dost open, And my mouth declareth Thy praise.

¹³ With my lips I have recounted All the judgments of Thy mouth.

¹²⁰ Trembled from Thy fear hath my flesh, And from Thy judgments I have been afraid!

¹⁷⁵ My soul liveth, and it doth praise Thee, And Thy judgments do help me.

²¹ And I—this is My covenant with them, said Jehovah, My Spirit that is on thee, And My words that I have put in thy mouth, Depart not from thy mouth, And from the mouth of thy seed, And from the mouth of thy seed's seed, said Jehovah, From henceforth unto the age!

¹³ in whom ye also, having heard the word of the truth—the good news of your salvation—in whom also having believed, ye were sealed with the Holy Spirit of the promise,

¹⁸ having counselled, He did beget us with a word of truth, for our being a certain first-fruit of His creatures.

²³ who being reviled—was not reviling again, suffering—was not threatening, and was committing himself to Him who is judging righteously,

¹⁵ because of this are they before the throne of God, and they do service to Him day and night in His sanctuary, and He who is sitting upon the throne shall tabernacle over them;

¹¹ he who is unrighteous—let him be unrighteous still, and he who is filthy—let him be filthy still, and he who is righteous—let him be declared righteous still, and he who is sanctified—let him be sanctified still:

¹⁹ A sojourner I am on earth, Hide not from me Thy commands.

⁷¹ Good for me that I have been afflicted, That I might learn Thy statutes.

⁹⁴ I am Thine, save Thou me, For Thy precepts I have sought.

⁴ If thou dost seek her as silver, And as hid treasures searchest for her, ⁵ Then understandest thou fear of Jehovah, And knowledge of God thou findest.

¹² In thy walking thy step is not straitened, And if thou runnest, thou stumblest not.

¹ For an object of desire he who is separated doth seek, With all wisdom he intermeddleth.

¹³ And I have given my heart to seek and to search out by wisdom concerning all that hath been done under the heavens. It is a sad travail God hath given to the sons of man to be humbled by it.

¹⁸ `The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, Because He did anoint me; To proclaim good news to the poor, Sent me to heal the broken of heart, To proclaim to captives deliverance, And to blind receiving of sight, To send away the bruised with deliverance,

³⁹ `Ye search the Writings, because ye think in them to have life age-during, and these are they that are testifying concerning me;

³⁰ As he is speaking these things, many believed in him;
³¹ Jesus, therefore, said unto the Jews who believed in him, `If ye may remain in my word, truly my disciples ye are, and ye shall know the truth, <sup>32</sup> and the truth shall make you free.' <sup>33</sup> They answered him, `Seed of Abraham we are; and to no one have we been servants at any time; how dost thou say—Ye shall become free?' ³⁴ Jesus answered them, `Verily, verily, I say to you—Every one who is committing sin, is a servant of the sin, ³⁵ and the servant doth not remain in the house—to the age, the son doth remain—to the age; ³⁶ if then the son may make you free, in reality ye shall be free.

¹⁷ because of this become not fools, but—understanding what is the will of the Lord,

¹² so speak ye and so do, as about by a law of liberty to be judged,

¹⁹ liberty to them promising, themselves being servants of the corruption, for by whom any one hath been overcome, to this one also he hath been brought to servitude,

¹ By David. I confess Thee, with all my heart, Before the gods I do praise Thee.

¹⁶ Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-Nego have answered, yea, they are saying to the king Nebuchadnezzar, `We have no need concerning this matter to answer thee. ¹⁷ Lo, it is; our God whom we are serving, is able to deliver us from a burning fiery furnace; and from thy hand, O king, He doth deliver. ¹⁸ And lo—not! be it known to thee, O king, that thy gods we are not serving, and to the golden image thou hast raised up we do no obeisance.'

¹ `Nebuchadnezzar the king to all peoples, nations, and languages, who are dwelling in all the earth: Your peace be great! ² The signs and wonders that God Most High hath done with me, it is good before me to shew. ³ His signs how great! and His wonders how mighty! His kingdom is a kingdom age-during, and His rule is with generation and generation.

²⁵ and they are driving thee away from men, and with the beast of the field is thy dwelling, and the herb as oxen they do cause thee to eat, and by the dew of the heavens they are wetting thee, and seven times do pass over thee, till that thou knowest that the Most High is ruler in the kingdom of men, and to whom He willeth He giveth it. ²⁶ And that which they said—to leave the stump of the roots of the tree; thy kingdom for thee abideth, after that thou knowest that the heavens are ruling. ²⁷ `Therefore, O king, let my counsel be acceptable unto thee, and thy sins by righteousness break off, and thy perversity by pitying the poor, lo, it is a lengthening of thine ease.

¹⁸ and before governors and kings ye shall be brought for my sake, for a testimony to them and to the nations. ¹⁹ `And whenever they may deliver you up, be not anxious how or what ye may speak, for it shall be given you in that hour what ye shall speak;

³⁸ for whoever may be ashamed of me, and of my words, in this adulterous and sinful generation, the Son of Man also shall be ashamed of him, when he may come in the glory of his Father, with the holy messengers.'

¹ And Agrippa said unto Paul, `It is permitted to thee to speak for thyself;' then Paul having stretched forth the hand, was making a defence: <sup>2</sup> `Concerning all things of which I am accused by Jews, king Agrippa, I have thought myself happy, being about to make a defence before thee to-day,

²⁴ And, he thus making a defence, Festus with a loud voice said, `Thou art mad, Paul; much learning doth turn thee mad;' <sup>25</sup> and he saith, `I am not mad, most noble Festus, but of truth and soberness the sayings I speak forth; ²⁶ for the king doth know concerning these things, before whom also I speak boldly, for none of these things, I am persuaded, are hidden from him; for this thing hath not been done in a corner; ²⁷ thou dost believe, king Agrippa, the prophets? I have known that thou dost believe!' ²⁸ And Agrippa said unto Paul, `In a little thou dost persuade me to become a Christian!' <sup>29</sup> and Paul said, `I would have wished to God, both in a little, and in much, not only thee, but also all those hearing me to-day, to become such as I also am—except these bonds.'

¹⁶ for I am not ashamed of the good news of the Christ, for it is the power of God to salvation to every one who is believing, both to Jew first, and to Greek.

²⁰ according to my earnest expectation and hope, that in nothing I shall be ashamed, and in all freedom, as always, also now Christ shall be magnified in my body, whether through life or through death,

⁸ therefore thou mayest not be ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me his prisoner, but do thou suffer evil along with the good news according to the power of God,

¹⁶ may the Lord give kindness to the house of Onesiphorus, because many times he did refresh me, and of my chain was not ashamed,

⁷ The law of Jehovah is perfect, refreshing the soul, The testimonies of Jehovah are stedfast, Making wise the simple, ⁸ The precepts of Jehovah are upright, Rejoicing the heart, The command of Jehovah is pure, enlightening the eyes,

¹⁴⁰ Tried is thy saying exceedingly, And Thy servant hath loved it.

¹⁶⁷ Kept hath my soul Thy testimonies, And I do love them exceedingly.

³⁴ Jesus saith to them, `My food is, that I may do the will of Him who sent me, and may finish His work;

¹² so that the law, indeed, is holy, and the command holy, and righteous, and good.

¹⁶ And if what I do not will, this I do, I consent to the law that it is good,

⁵ For, let this mind be in you that is also in Christ Jesus,

²¹ for to this ye were called, because Christ also did suffer for you, leaving to you an example, that ye may follow his steps,

¹² Arise, O Jehovah! O God, lift up Thy hand! Forget not the humble.

¹⁵ In Thy precepts I meditate, And I behold attentively Thy paths.

¹² Because that they serve them before their idols, and have been to the house of Israel for a stumbling-block of iniquity, therefore I have lifted up my hand against them—an affirmation of the Lord Jehovah—and they have borne their iniquity.

⁹ High is thy hand above thine adversaries, And all thine enemies are cut off.

²¹ `Not every one who is saying to me Lord, lord, shall come into the reign of the heavens; but he who is doing the will of my Father who is in the heavens.

¹ And God remembereth Noah, and every living thing, and all the cattle which are with him in the ark, and God causeth a wind to pass over the earth, and the waters subside,

⁹ And Jacob saith, `God of my father Abraham, and God of my father Isaac, Jehovah who saith unto me, Turn back to thy land, and to thy kindred, and I do good with thee:

² also heretofore, in Saul's being king over us, thou hast been he who is bringing out and bringing in Israel, and Jehovah saith to thee, Thou dost feed My people Israel, and thou art for leader over Israel.'

²⁵ `And now, Jehovah God, the word which Thou hast spoken concerning Thy servant, and concerning his house, establish unto the age, and do as Thou hast spoken;

⁷ Remember Thou that my life is a breath, Mine eye turneth not back to see good.

¹⁴ And I continually do wait with hope, And have added unto all Thy praise.

⁴² For He hath remembered His holy word, With Abraham His servant,

⁴ Remember me, O Jehovah, With the favour of Thy people, Look after me in Thy salvation.

⁴⁵ And remembereth for them His covenant, And is comforted, According to the abundance of His kindness.

¹⁴⁷ I have gone forward in the dawn, and I cry, For Thy word I have hoped.

⁶ `On thy walls, O Jerusalem, I have appointed watchmen, All the day, and all the night, Continually, they are not silent.' O ye remembrancers of Jehovah, Keep not silence for yourselves,

¹³ and the God of the hope shall fill you with all joy and peace in the believing, for your abounding in the hope in power of the Holy Spirit.

¹³ Wherefore having girded up the loins of your mind, being sober, hope perfectly upon the grace that is being brought to you in the revelation of Jesus Christ,

²¹ who through him do believe in God, who did raise out of the dead, and glory to him did give, so that your faith and hope may be in God.

¹³ I had not believed to look on the goodness of Jehovah In the land of the living!

⁷ Jehovah is my strength, and my shield, In Him my heart trusted, and I have been helped. And my heart exulteth, And with my song I thank Him.

⁸ By day Jehovah commandeth His kindness, And by night a song is with me, A prayer to the God of my life.

¹¹ What! bowest thou thyself, O my soul? And what! art thou troubled within me? Wait for God, for still I confess Him, The salvation of my countenance, and my God!

¹⁹ In the abundance of my thoughts within me, Thy comforts delight my soul.

¹⁰ And I have prophesied as He commanded me, and the Spirit cometh into them, and they live, and stand on their feet—a very very great force.

⁶³ the spirit it is that is giving life; the flesh doth not profit anything; the sayings that I speak to you are spirit, and they are life;

³ And not only so, but we also boast in the tribulations, knowing that the tribulation doth work endurance; ⁴ and the endurance, experience; and the experience, hope; ⁵ and the hope doth not make ashamed, because the love of God hath been poured forth in our hearts through the Holy Spirit that hath been given to us.

⁴ for, as many things as were written before, for our instruction were written before, that through the endurance, and the exhortation of the Writings, we might have the hope.

¹⁷ in which God, more abundantly willing to shew to the heirs of the promise the immutability of his counsel, did interpose by an oath, ¹⁸ that through two immutable things, in which it is impossible for God to lie, a strong comfort we may have who did flee for refuge to lay hold on the hope set before us, ¹⁹ which we have, as an anchor of the soul, both sure and stedfast, and entering into that within the vail,

¹¹ and all chastening for the present, indeed, doth not seem to be of joy, but of sorrow, yet afterward the peaceable fruit of righteousness to those exercised through it—it doth yield. ¹² Wherefore, the hanging-down hands and the loosened knees set ye up;

³ Blessed is the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who, according to the abundance of His kindness did beget us again to a living hope, through the rising again of Jesus Christ out of the dead,

¹¹ On His step hath my foot laid hold, His way I have kept, and turn not aside,

¹⁸ We turn not backward our heart, Nor turn aside doth our step from Thy path.

¹⁵⁷ Many are my pursuers, and adversaries, From Thy testimonies I have not turned aside.

³ and saith, `I pray thee, O Jehovah, remember, I pray Thee, how I have walked habitually before Thee in truth, and with a perfect heart, and that which is good in thine eyes I have done;' and Hezekiah weepeth—a great weeping.

⁴ He doth not become weak nor bruised, Till he setteth judgment in the earth, And for his law isles wait with hope.

⁷ Thou hast persuaded me, O Jehovah, and I am persuaded; Thou hast hardened me, and dost prevail, I have been for a laughter all the day, Every one is mocking at me,

¹⁴ And also the Pharisees, being lovers of money, were hearing all these things, and were deriding him, ¹⁵ and he said to them, `Ye are those declaring yourselves righteous before men, but God doth know your hearts; because that which among men is high, is abomination before God;

³⁵ And the people were standing, looking on, and the rulers also were sneering with them, saying, `Others he saved, let him save himself, if this be the Christ, the choice one of God.'

²³ save that the Holy Spirit in every city doth testify fully, saying, that for me bonds and tribulations remain; ²⁴ but I make account of none of these, neither do I count my life precious to myself, so that I finish my course with joy, and the ministration that I received from the Lord Jesus, to testify fully the good news of the grace of God.

¹ Therefore, we also having so great a cloud of witnesses set around us, every weight having put off, and the closely besetting sin, through endurance may we run the contest that is set before us, ² looking to the author and perfecter of faith—Jesus, who, over-against the joy set before him—did endure a cross, shame having despised, on the right hand also of the throne of God did sit down; ³ for consider again him who endured such gainsaying from the sinners to himself, that ye may not be wearied in your souls—being faint.

²⁹ And the sons of Israel have gone on dry land in the midst of the sea, and the waters are to them a wall, on their right and on their left; ³⁰ and Jehovah saveth Israel in that day out of the hand of the Egyptians, and Israel seeth the Egyptians dead on the sea-shore,

³ and they are assembled against Moses and against Aaron, and say unto them, `Enough of you! for all the company—all of them are holy, and in their midst is Jehovah; and wherefore do ye lift yourselves up above the assembly of Jehovah?' <sup>4</sup> And Moses heareth, and falleth on his face, <sup>5</sup> and he speaketh unto Korah, and unto all his company, saying, `Morning! —and Jehovah is knowing those who are his, and him who is holy, and hath brought near unto Him; even him whom He doth fix on He bringeth near unto Him. ⁶ This do: take to yourselves censers, Korah, and all his company, ⁷ and put in them fire, and put on them perfume, before Jehovah to-morrow, and it hath been, the man whom Jehovah chooseth, he is the holy one; —enough of you, sons of Levi.' ⁸ And Moses saith unto Korah, `Hear ye, I pray you, sons of Levi; <sup>9</sup> is it little to you that the God of Israel hath separated you from the company of Israel to bring you near unto Himself, to do the service of the tabernacle of Jehovah, and to stand before the company to serve them? — <sup>10</sup> yea, He doth bring thee near, and all thy brethren the sons of Levi with thee—and ye have sought also the priesthood! <sup>11</sup> Therefore, thou and all thy company who are met are against Jehovah; and Aaron, what is he, that ye murmur against him?'
<sup>12</sup> And Moses sendeth to call for Dathan and for Abiram sons of Eliab, and they say, `We do not come up; ¹³ is it little that thou hast brought us up out of a land flowing with milk and honey to put us to death in a wilderness that thou also certainly makest thyself prince over us? ¹⁴ Yea, unto a land flowing with milk and honey thou hast not brought us in, nor dost thou give to us an inheritance of field and vineyard; the eyes of these men dost thou pick out? we do not come up.' ¹⁵ And it is very displeasing to Moses, and he saith unto Jehovah, `Turn not Thou unto their present; not one ass from them have I taken, nor have I afflicted one of them.' <sup>16</sup> And Moses saith unto Korah, `Thou and all thy company, be ye before Jehovah, thou, and they, and Aaron, to-morrow; ¹⁷ and take ye each his censer, and ye have put on them perfume, and brought near before Jehovah, each his censer, two hundred and fifty censers; and thou and Aaron, each his censer.' ¹⁸ And they take each his censer, and put on them fire, and lay on them perfume, and they stand at the opening of the tent of meeting, with Moses and Aaron. ¹⁹ And Korah assembleth against them all the company unto the opening of the tent of meeting, and the honour of Jehovah is seen by all the company. ²⁰ And Jehovah speaketh unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying, ²¹ `Be ye separated from the midst of this company, and I consume them in a moment;' <sup>22</sup> and they fall on their faces, and say, `God, God of the spirits of all flesh—the one man sinneth, and against all the company Thou art wroth!'
²³ And Jehovah speaketh unto Moses, saying, ²⁴ `Speak unto the company, saying, Go ye up from round about the tabernacle of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram.' <sup>25</sup> And Moses riseth, and goeth unto Dathan and Abiram, and the elders of Israel go after him, <sup>26</sup> and he speaketh unto the company, saying, `Turn aside, I pray you, from the tents of these wicked men, and come not against anything that they have, lest ye be consumed in all their sins.' ²⁷ And they go up from the tabernacle of Korah, Dathan and Abiram, from round about, and Dathan, and Abiram have come out, standing at the opening of their tents, and their wives, and their sons, and their infants. ²⁸ And Moses saith, `By this ye do know that Jehovah hath sent me to do all these works, that they are not from my own heart; <sup>29</sup> if according to the death of all men these die—or the charge of all men is charged upon them—Jehovah hath not sent me; <sup>30</sup> and if a strange thing Jehovah do, and the ground hath opened her mouth and swallowed them, and all that they have, and they have gone down alive to Sheol—then ye have known that these men have despised Jehovah.' <sup>31</sup> And it cometh to pass at his finishing speaking all these words, that the ground which is under them cleaveth, <sup>32</sup> and the earth openeth her mouth, and swalloweth them, and their houses, and all the men who are for Korah, and all the goods, <sup>33</sup> and they go down, they, and all that they have, alive to Sheol, and the earth closeth over them, and they perish from the midst of the assembly; <sup>34</sup> and all Israel who are round about them have fled at their voice, for they said, `Lest the earth swallow us;'
³⁵ and fire hath come out from Jehovah, and consumeth the two hundred and fifty men bringing near the perfume.

³⁵ Not one of these men of this evil generation doth see the good land which I have sworn to give to your fathers, ³⁶ save Caleb son of Jephunneh—he doth see it, and to him I give the land on which he hath trodden, and to his sons, because that he hath been fully after Jehovah.

³ `Your eyes are seeing that which Jehovah hath done in Baal-Peor, for every man who hath gone after Baal-Peor, Jehovah thy God hath destroyed him from thy midst; ⁴ and ye who are cleaving to Jehovah your God, are alive, all of you, to-day.

⁵ I have reckoned the days of old, The years of the ages.

¹¹ I mention the doings of Jah, For I remember of old Thy wonders, ¹² And I have meditated on all Thy working, And I talk concerning Thy doings.

¹⁸ To those keeping His covenant, And to those remembering His precepts to do them.

⁵ Remember His wonders that He did, His signs and the judgments of His mouth.

⁵ I have remembered days of old, I have meditated on all Thine acts, On the work of Thy hand I muse.

⁴ For if God messengers who sinned did not spare, but with chains of thick gloom, having cast them down to Tartarus, did deliver them to judgment, having been reserved, ⁵ and the old world did not spare, but the eighth person, Noah, of righteousness a preacher, did keep, a flood on the world of the impious having brought, ⁶ and the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah having turned to ashes, with an overthrow did condemn, an example to those about to be impious having set them;
⁷ and righteous Lot, worn down by the conduct in lasciviousness of the impious, He did rescue, ⁸ for in seeing and hearing, the righteous man, dwelling among them, day by day the righteous soul with unlawful works was harassing. ⁹ The Lord hath known to rescue pious ones out of temptation, and unrighteous ones to a day of judgment, being punished, to keep,

³ And at my hearing this word, I have rent my garment and my upper robe, and pluck out of the hair of my head, and of my beard, and sit astonished,

¹⁴ do we turn back to break Thy commands, and to join ourselves in marriage with the people of these abominations? art not Thou angry against us—even to consumption—till there is no remnant and escaped part?

⁶ And Ezra riseth from before the house of God, and goeth unto the chamber of Jehohanan son of Eliashib; yea, he goeth there, bread he hath not eaten, and water he hath not drunk, for he is mourning because of the trespass of the removal.

²⁵ And I strive with them, and declare them vile, and smite certain of them, and pluck off their hair, and cause them to swear by God, `Ye do not give your daughters to their sons, nor do ye take of their daughters to your sons, and to yourselves.

³⁰ If his sons forsake My law, And in My judgments do not walk;

¹³⁶ Rivulets of waters have come down mine eyes, Because they have not kept Thy law!

¹⁵⁸ I have seen treacherous ones, And grieve myself, Because Thy saying they have not kept.

¹⁷ And if ye do not hear it, In secret places doth my soul weep, because of pride, Yea, it weepeth sore, And the tear cometh down mine eyes, For the flock of Jehovah hath been taken captive.

¹⁹ `Then Daniel, whose name is Belteshazzar, hath been astonished about one hour, and his thoughts do trouble him; the king hath answered and said, O Belteshazzar, let not the dream and its interpretation trouble thee. Belteshazzar hath answered and said, My lord, the dream—to those hating thee, and its interpretation—to thine enemies!

¹⁶ I have heard, and my belly trembleth, At the noise have my lips quivered, Rottenness doth come into my bones, And in my place I do tremble, That I rest for a day of distress, At the coming up of the people, he overcometh it.

⁴¹ And when he came nigh, having seen the city, he wept over it, ⁴² saying—`If thou didst know, even thou, at least in this thy day, the things for thy peace; but now they were hid from thine eyes.

¹ Truth I say in Christ, I lie not, my conscience bearing testimony with me in the Holy Spirit, ² that I have great grief and unceasing pain in my heart— ³ for I was wishing, I myself, to be anathema from the Christ—for my brethren, my kindred, according to the flesh,

²¹ lest again having come, my God may humble me in regard to you, and I may bewail many of those having sinned before, and not having reformed concerning the uncleanness, and whoredom, and lasciviousness, that they did practise.

¹⁸ for many walk of whom many times I told you—and now also weeping tell—the enemies of the cross of the Christ!

¹ Why, Jehovah, dost Thou stand at a distance? Thou dost hide in times of adversity,

¹ An instruction, by Ethan the Ezrahite. Of the kind acts of Jehovah, to the age I sing, To all generations I make known Thy faithfulness with my mouth,

²⁴ And Jacob is left alone, and one wrestleth with him till the ascending of the dawn; ²⁵ and he seeth that he is not able for him, and he cometh against the hollow of his thigh, and the hollow of Jacob's thigh is disjointed in his wrestling with him; ²⁶ and he saith, `Send me away, for the dawn hath ascended:' and he saith, `I send thee not away, except thou hast blessed me.' ²⁷ And he saith unto him, `What is thy name?' and he saith, `Jacob.' ²⁸ And he saith, `Thy name is no more called Jacob, but Israel; for thou hast been a prince with God and with men, and dost prevail.'

⁹ Because of the multitude of oppressions They cause to cry out, They cry because of the arm of the mighty. ¹⁰ And none said, `Where is God my maker? Giving songs in the night,

⁶ If I have remembered Thee on my couch, In the watches—I meditate on Thee.

⁶ I remember my music in the night, With my heart I meditate, and my spirit doth search diligently:

¹⁷ Gimel. Confer benefits on Thy servant, I live, and I keep Thy word.

¹⁸ I recount them! than the sand they are more, I have waked, and I am still with Thee.

⁹ With my soul I desired Thee in the night, Also, with my spirit within me I seek Thee earnestly, For when Thy judgments are on the earth, The inhabitants of the world have learned righteousness.

¹² And it came to pass in those days, he went forth to the mountain to pray, and was passing the night in the prayer of God,

¹⁰ if my commandments ye may keep, ye shall remain in my love, according as I the commands of my Father have kept, and do remain in His love;

²⁵ And at midnight Paul and Silas praying, were singing hymns to God, and the prisoners were hearing them,

¹⁸ They go before me in a day of my calamity And Jehovah is for a support to me. ¹⁹ And He bringeth me forth to a large place, He draweth me out, because He delighted in me.
²⁰ Jehovah doth recompense me According to my righteousness, According to the cleanness of my hands, He doth return to me. ²¹ For I have kept the ways of Jehovah, And have not done wickedly against my God. ²² For all His judgments are before me, And His statutes I turn not from me.

¹⁶⁵ Abundant peace have those loving Thy law, And they have no stumbling-block.

¹⁹ and in this we know that of the truth we are, and before Him we shall assure our hearts,
²⁰ because if our heart may condemn—because greater is God than our heart, and He doth know all things. ²¹ Beloved, if our heart may not condemn us, we have boldness toward God, ²² and whatever we may ask, we receive from Him, because His commands we keep, and the things pleasing before Him we do,
²³ and this is His command, that we may believe in the name of His Son Jesus Christ, and may love one another, even as He did give command to us, ²⁴ and he who is keeping His commands, in Him he doth remain, and He in him; and in this we know that He doth remain in us, from the Spirit that He gave us.

¹⁷ Jehovah thou hast caused to promise to-day to become thy God, and to walk in His ways, and to keep His statutes, and His commands, and His judgments, and to hearken to His voice. ¹⁸ `And Jehovah hath caused thee to promise to-day to become His people, a peculiar treasure, as He hath spoken to thee, and to keep all His commands;

¹⁸ and Jehovah casteth out the whole of the peoples, even the Amorite inhabiting the land, from our presence; we also do serve Jehovah, for He is our God.'

²¹ And the people saith unto Joshua, `No, but Jehovah we do serve.'

²⁴ And the people say unto Joshua, `Jehovah our God we serve, and to His voice we hearken.' <sup>25</sup> And Joshua maketh a covenant with the people on that day, and layeth on it a statute and an ordinance, in Shechem. <sup>26</sup> And Joshua writeth these words in the Book of the Law of God, and taketh a great stone, and raiseth it up there under the oak which is in the sanctuary of Jehovah. <sup>27</sup> And Joshua saith unto all the people, `Lo, this stone is against us for a witness, for it hath heard all the sayings of Jehovah which He hath spoken with us, and it hath been against you for a witness, lest ye lie against your God.'

²⁹ are laying hold on their brethren, their honourable ones, and coming in to an execration, and in to an oath, to walk in the law of God, that was given by the hand of Moses, servant of God, and to observe and to do all the commands of Jehovah our Lord, and His judgments, and His statutes; ³⁰ and that we give not our daughters to the peoples of the land, and their daughters we take not to our sons; ³¹ and the peoples of the land who are bringing in the wares and any corn on the sabbath-day to sell, we receive not of them on the sabbath, and on a holy day, and we leave the seventh year, and usury on every hand.
³² And we have appointed for ourselves commands, to put on ourselves the third of a shekel in a year, for the service of the house of our God, ³³ for bread of the arrangement, and the continual present, and the continual burnt-offering of the sabbaths, of the new moons, for appointed seasons, and for holy things, and for sin-offerings, to make atonement for Israel, even all the work of the house of our God. ³⁴ And the lots we have caused to fall for the offering of wood, among the priests, the Levites, and the people, to bring in to the house of our God, by the house of our fathers, at times appointed, year by year, to burn on the altar of Jehovah our God, as it is written in the law, ³⁵ and to bring in the first fruits of our ground, and the first fruits of all fruit of every tree, year by year, to the house of Jehovah, ³⁶ and the firstlings of our sons, and of our cattle, as it is written in the law, and the firstlings of our herds and our flocks, to bring in to the house of our God, to the priests who are ministering in the house of our God. ³⁷ And the beginning of our dough, and our heave-offerings, and the fruit of every tree, of new wine, and of oil, we bring in to the priests, unto the chambers of the house of our God, and the tithe of our ground to the Levites; and they—the Levites—have the tithes in all the cities of our tillage; ³⁸ and the priest, son of Aaron, hath been with the Levites in the tithing of the Levites, and the Levites bring up the tithe of the tithe to the house of our God unto the chambers, to the treasure-house; ³⁹ for unto the chambers do they bring in—the sons of Israel and the sons of Levi—the heave-offering of the corn, the new wine, and the oil, and there are vessels of the sanctuary, and the priests, those ministering, and the gatekeepers, and the singers, and we do not forsake the house of our God.

⁵ Jehovah is the portion of my share, and of my cup, Thou—Thou dost uphold my lot.

¹⁴ For opened were my lips, And my mouth spake in my distress:

²⁶ Consumed hath been my flesh and my heart, The rock of my heart and my portion is God to the age.

⁵ I have cried unto thee, O Jehovah, I have said, `Thou art my refuge, My portion in the land of the living.'

¹⁶ Not like these is the Portion of Jacob, For framer of all things is He, And Israel is the rod of His inheritance, Jehovah of Hosts is His name.

²⁴ My portion is Jehovah, hath my soul said, Therefore I hope for Him.

⁶ And the king answereth and saith unto the man of God, `Appease, I pray thee, the face of Jehovah thy God, and pray for me, and my hand doth come back unto me;' and the man of God appeaseth the face of Jehovah, and the hand of the king cometh back unto him, and it is as at the beginning.

¹⁹ And thou hast rested, And none is causing trembling, And many have entreated thy face;

⁶ Many are saying, `Who doth show us good?' Lift on us the light of Thy face, O Jehovah,

⁸ To Thee said my heart `They sought my face, Thy face, O Jehovah, I seek.'

¹ To the Overseer. —A Psalm of David, in the coming in unto him of Nathan the prophet, when he hath gone in unto Bath-Sheba. Favour me, O God, according to Thy kindness, According to the abundance of Thy mercies, Blot out my transgressions. ² Thoroughly wash me from mine iniquity, And from my sin cleanse me, ³ For my transgressions I do know, And my sin is before me continually.

¹⁰ In God I praise the word, In Jehovah I praise the word.

¹ A Prayer of David. Incline, O Jehovah, Thine ear, Answer me, for I am poor and needy. ² Keep my soul, for I am pious, Save Thy servant—who is trusting to Thee, O Thou, my God. ³ Favour me, O Lord, for to Thee I call all the day.

⁴¹ Waw. And meet me doth Thy kindness, O Jehovah, Thy salvation according to Thy saying.

⁷⁶ Let, I pray Thee, Thy kindness be to comfort me, According to Thy saying to Thy servant.

¹⁷⁰ My supplication cometh in before Thee, According to Thy saying deliver Thou me.

² I bow myself toward Thy holy temple, And I confess Thy name, For Thy kindness, and for Thy truth, For Thou hast made great Thy saying above all Thy name.

¹⁴ And have not cried unto Me with their heart, but howl on their beds, For corn and new wine they assemble themselves, They turn aside against Me.

³⁵ The heaven and the earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away.

²² may we draw near with a true heart, in full assurance of faith, having the hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and having the body bathed with pure water;

³⁰ in distress being to thee, and all these things have found thee, in the latter end of the days, and thou hast turned back unto Jehovah thy God, and hast hearkened to His voice; ³¹ for a merciful God is Jehovah thy God; He doth not fail thee, nor destroy thee, nor forget the covenant of thy fathers, which He hath sworn to them.

⁴ And thou hast said unto them: Thus said Jehovah, Do they fall, and not rise? Doth he turn back, and not return? ⁵ Wherefore hath this people of Jerusalem Turned back—a perpetual backsliding? They have kept hold on deceit, They have refused to turn back. ⁶ I have given attention, yea, I hearken, They do not speak right, No man hath repented of his wickedness, Saying, What have I done? Every one hath turned to his courses, As a horse is rushing into battle.

¹⁸ I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself, `Thou hast chastised me, And I am chastised, as a heifer not taught, Turn me back, and I turn back, For thou art Jehovah my God. ¹⁹ For after my turning back I repented, And after my being instructed I struck on the thigh, I have been ashamed, I have also blushed, For I have borne the reproach of my youth.

⁴⁰ We search our ways, and investigate, And turn back unto Jehovah.

²⁸ And he seeth and turneth back, From all his transgressions that he hath done, He doth surely live, he doth not die,

³⁰ Therefore, each according to his ways I judge you, O house of Israel? An affirmation of the Lord Jehovah, Turn ye back, yea, turn yourselves back, From all your transgressions, And iniquity is not to you for a stumbling-block,

¹⁴ And in My saying to the wicked: Thou surely diest, And—he hath turned back from his sin, And hath done judgment and righteousness, ¹⁵ (The pledge the wicked restoreth, plunder he repayeth,) In the statutes of life he hath walked, So as not to do perversity, He surely liveth—he doth not die. ¹⁶ None of his sin that he hath sinned is remembered to him, Judgment and righteousness he hath done, He doth surely live.

¹⁹ And in the turning back of the wicked from his wickedness, And he hath done judgment and righteousness, by them he liveth.

¹³ And rend your heart, and not your garments, And turn back unto Jehovah your God, For gracious and merciful is He, Slow to anger, and abundant in kindness, And He hath repented concerning the evil.

⁵ And now, thus said Jehovah of Hosts, Set your heart to your ways.

⁷ Thus said Jehovah of Hosts: Set your heart to your ways.

¹⁷ `And having come to himself, he said, How many hirelings of my father have a superabundance of bread, and I here with hunger am perishing! <sup>18</sup> having risen, I will go on unto my father, and will say to him, Father, I did sin—to the heaven, and before thee, <sup>19</sup> and no more am I worthy to be called thy son; make me as one of thy hirelings. <sup>20</sup> `And having risen, he went unto his own father, and he being yet far distant, his father saw him, and was moved with compassion, and having ran he fell upon his neck and kissed him;

⁵ Your own selves try ye, if ye are in the faith; your own selves prove ye; do ye not know your own selves, that Jesus Christ is in you, if ye be not in some respect disapproved of?

⁷ For He is our God, and we the people of His pasture, And the flock of His hand, To-day, if to His voice ye hearken, ⁸ Harden not your heart as in Meribah, As in the day of Massah in the wilderness,

¹ Boast not thyself of to-morrow, For thou knowest not what a day bringeth forth.

¹⁰ All that thy hand findeth to do, with thy power do, for there is no work, and device, and knowledge, and wisdom in Sheol whither thou art going.

⁶ And it cometh to pass, in His commanding the man clothed with linen, saying, `Take fire from between the wheel, from between the cherubs,' and he goeth in and standeth near the wheel, ⁷ that the one cherub putteth forth his hand from between the cherubs unto the fire that is between the cherubs, and lifteth up, and giveth into the hands of him who is clothed with linen, and he receiveth, and cometh forth.
⁸ And there appeareth in the cherubs the form of a hand of man under their wings,

¹⁶ to reveal His Son in me, that I might proclaim him good news among the nations, immediately I conferred not with flesh and blood,

⁹ And David saith to Saul, `Why dost thou hear the words of man, saying, Lo, David is seeking thine evil? <sup>10</sup> Lo, this day have thine eyes seen how that Jehovah hath given thee to-day into my hand in the cave; and one said to slay thee, and mine eye hath pity on thee, and I say, I do not put forth my hand against my lord, for the anointed of Jehovah he is . <sup>11</sup> `And, my father, see, yea see the skirt of thine upper robe in my hand; for by cutting off the skirt of thy upper robe, and I have not slain thee, know and see that there is not in my hand evil and transgression, and I have not sinned against thee, and thou art hunting my soul to take it!

⁹ And David saith unto Abishai, `Destroy him not; for who hath put forth his hand against the anointed of Jehovah, and been acquitted?' <sup>10</sup> And David saith, `Jehovah liveth; except Jehovah doth smite him, or his day come that he hath died, or into battle he go down, and hath been consumed— ¹¹ far be it from me, by Jehovah, from putting forth my hand against the anointed of Jehovah; and, now, take, I pray thee, the spear which is at his pillow, and the cruse of water, and we go away.'

³ And David cometh in—and his men—unto the city, and lo, burnt with fire, and their wives, and their sons, and their daughters have been taken captive! ⁴ And David lifteth up—and the people who are with him—their voice and weep, till that they have no power to weep. ⁵ And the two wives of David have been taken captive, Ahinoam the Jezreelitess, and Abigail wife of Nabal the Carmelite;

¹⁷ While this one is speaking another also hath come and saith, `Chaldeans made three heads, and rush on the camels, and take them, and the young men they have smitten by the mouth of the sword, and I am escaped—only I alone—to declare it to thee.'

¹ A Psalm of David, in his fleeing from the face of Absalom his son. Jehovah, how have my distresses multiplied! Many are rising up against me.

⁹⁵ Thy wicked waited for me to destroy me, Thy testimonies I understand.

⁵ The proud hid a snare for me—and cords, They spread a net by the side of the path, Snares they have set for me. Selah.

²⁹ Say not, `As he did to me, so I do to him, I render to each according to his work.'

⁹ And as bands do wait for a man, A company of priests do murder—the way to Shechem, For wickedness they have done.

¹⁷ giving back to no one evil for evil; providing right things before all men. ¹⁸ If possible—so far as in you—with all men being in peace; ¹⁹ not avenging yourselves, beloved, but give place to the wrath, for it hath been written, `Vengeance is Mine, ²⁰ I will recompense again, saith the Lord;' if, then, thine enemy doth hunger, feed him; if he doth thirst, give him drink; for this doing, coals of fire thou shalt heap upon his head; ²¹ Be not overcome by the evil, but overcome, in the good, the evil.

⁷ I confess Thee with uprightness of heart, In my learning the judgments of Thy righteousness.

¹³⁷ Tzade. Righteous art Thou, O Jehovah, And upright are Thy judgments.

¹⁶⁴ Seven times in a day I have praised Thee, Because of the judgments of Thy righteousness.

³⁵ And very early, it being yet night, having risen, he went forth, and went away to a desert place, and was there praying;

³ For the holy ones who are in the land, And the honourable, all my delight is in them.

⁷⁹ Those fearing Thee turn back to me, And those knowing Thy testimonies.

⁷ Bring forth from prison my soul to confess Thy name, The righteous do compass me about, When Thou conferrest benefits upon me!

²⁰ Whoso is walking with wise men is wise, And a companion of fools suffereth evil.

¹⁶ Then have those fearing Jehovah spoken one to another, And Jehovah doth attend and hear, And written is a book of memorial before Him Of those fearing Jehovah, And of those esteeming His name. ¹⁷ And they have been to Me, said Jehovah of Hosts, In the day that I am appointing—a peculiar treasure, And I have had pity on them, As one hath pity on his son who is serving him. ¹⁸ And ye have turned back and considered, Between the righteous and the wicked, Between the servant of God and him who is not His servant.

¹⁴ Become not yoked with others—unbelievers, for what partaking is there to righteousness and lawlessness? ¹⁵ and what fellowship to light with darkness? and what concord to Christ with Belial? or what part to a believer with an unbeliever? ¹⁶ and what agreement to the sanctuary of God with idols? for ye are a sanctuary of the living God, according as God said—`I will dwell in them, and will walk among them, and I will be their God, and they shall be My people, ¹⁷ wherefore, come ye forth out of the midst of them, and be separated, saith the Lord, and an unclean thing do not touch, and I—I will receive you,

³ that which we have seen and heard declare we to you, that ye also may have fellowship with us, and our fellowship is with the Father, and with His Son Jesus Christ;

¹⁴ we—we have known that we have passed out of the death to the life, because we love the brethren; he who is not loving the brother doth remain in the death.

⁵ Loving righteousness and judgment, Of the kindness of Jehovah is the earth full.

¹³ Watering hills from His upper chambers, From the fruit of Thy works is the earth satisfied.

²⁶ My ways I have recounted, And Thou answerest me, teach me Thy statutes,

⁹ Good is Jehovah to all, And His mercies are over all His works.

¹⁷ Thus said Jehovah, thy redeemer, The Holy One of Israel, `I am Jehovah thy God, teaching thee to profit, Causing thee to tread in the way thou goest. ¹⁸ O that thou hadst attended to My commands, Then as a river is thy peace, And thy righteousness as billows of the sea,

²⁹ take up my yoke upon you, and learn from me, because I am meek and humble in heart, and ye shall find rest to your souls,

¹⁴ yea, because, who am I, and who are my people, that we retain power to offer thus willingly? but of Thee is the whole, and out of Thy hand we have given to Thee;

⁵ Jehovah is the portion of my share, and of my cup, Thou—Thou dost uphold my lot. ⁶ Lines have fallen to me in pleasant places, Yea, a beauteous inheritance is for me.

³⁵ And Thou givest to me the shield of Thy salvation, And Thy right hand doth support me, And Thy lowliness maketh me great.

⁵ Thou arrangest before me a table, Over-against my adversaries, Thou hast anointed with oil my head, My cup is full! ⁶ Only—goodness and kindness pursue me, All the days of my life, And my dwelling is in the house of Jehovah, For a length of days!

¹¹ Thou hast turned my mourning to dancing for me, Thou hast loosed my sackcloth, And girdest me with joy.

¹⁵ And the sons of Israel cry unto Jehovah, and Jehovah raiseth to them a saviour, Ehud son of Gera, a Benjamite (a man—shut of his right hand), and the sons of Israel send by his hand a present to Eglon king of Moab;

⁹ and Thou hast given to Thy servant an understanding heart, to judge Thy people, to discern between good and evil; for who is able to judge this Thy great people?'

²⁸ And all Israel hear of the judgment that the king hath judged, and fear because of the king, for they have seen that the wisdom of God is in his heart, to do judgment.

¹³ `And on mount Sinai Thou hast come down, even to speak with them from the heavens, and Thou dost give to them right judgments, and true laws, good statutes and commands. ¹⁴ And Thy holy sabbath Thou hast made known to them, and commands, and statutes, and law, Thou hast commanded for them, by the hand of Moses Thy servant;

¹ By Solomon. O God, Thy judgments to the king give, And Thy righteousness to the king's son.
² He judgeth Thy people with righteousness, And Thy poor with judgment.

¹⁶⁰ The sum of Thy word is truth, And to the age is every judgment of Thy righteousness!

¹ My son, if thou dost accept my sayings, And my commands dost lay up with thee, ² To cause thine ear to attend to wisdom, Thou inclinest thy heart to understanding, ³ For, if for intelligence thou callest, For understanding givest forth thy voice, ⁴ If thou dost seek her as silver, And as hid treasures searchest for her, ⁵ Then understandest thou fear of Jehovah, And knowledge of God thou findest. ⁶ For Jehovah giveth wisdom, From His mouth knowledge and understanding. ⁷ Even to lay up for the upright substance, A shield for those walking uprightly. ⁸ To keep the paths of judgment, And the way of His saints He preserveth. ⁹ Then understandest thou righteousness, And judgment, and uprightness—every good path.

² Rested on him hath the Spirit of Jehovah, The spirit of wisdom and understanding, The spirit of counsel and might, The spirit of knowledge and fear of Jehovah. ³ To refresh him in the fear of Jehovah, And by the sight of his eyes he judgeth not, Nor by the hearing of his ears decideth. ⁴ And he hath judged in righteousness the poor, And decided in uprightness for the humble of earth, And hath smitten earth with the rod of his mouth, And with the breath of his lips he putteth the wicked to death.

¹¹ And he answering said to them that—`To you it hath been given to know the secrets of the reign of the heavens, and to these it hath not been given,

⁹ and this I pray, that your love yet more and more may abound in full knowledge, and all judgment,

¹⁵ And Jeshurun waxeth fat, and doth kick: Thou hast been fat—thou hast been thick, Thou hast been covered. And he leaveth God who made him, And dishonoureth the Rock of his salvation.

¹⁹ And all the kings—servants of Hadadezer—see that they have been smitten before Israel, and make peace with Israel, and serve them; and Aram is afraid to help any more the Bene-Ammon.

² and it cometh to pass, at evening-time, that David riseth from off his couch, and walketh up and down on the roof of the king's house, and seeth from the roof a woman bathing, and the woman is of very good appearance, ³ and David sendeth and inquireth about the woman, and saith, `Is not this Bath-Sheba, daughter of Eliam, wife of Uriah the Hittite?' <sup>4</sup> And David sendeth messengers, and taketh her, and she cometh unto him, and he lieth with her—and she is purifying herself from her uncleanness—and she turneth back unto her house; <sup>5</sup> and the woman conceiveth, and sendeth, and declareth to David, and saith, `I am conceiving.'
⁶ And David sendeth unto Joab, `Send unto me Uriah the Hittite,' and Joab sendeth Uriah unto David; <sup>7</sup> and Uriah cometh unto him, and David asketh of the prosperity of Joab, and of the prosperity of the people, and of the prosperity of the war. <sup>8</sup> And David saith to Uriah, `Go down to thy house, and wash thy feet;' and Uriah goeth out of the king's house, and there goeth out after him a gift from the king, ⁹ and Uriah lieth down at the opening of the king's house, with all the servants of his lord, and hath not gone down unto his house. ¹⁰ And they declare to David, saying, `Uriah hath not gone down unto his house;' and David saith unto Uriah, `Hast thou not come from a journey? wherefore hast thou not gone down unto thy house?' ¹¹ And Uriah saith unto David, `The ark, and Israel, and Judah, are abiding in booths, and my lord Joab, and the servants of my lord, on the face of the field are encamping; and I—I go in unto my house to eat and to drink, and to lie with my wife! —thy life, and the life of thy soul—if I do this thing.' <sup>12</sup> And David saith unto Uriah, `Abide in this place also to-day, and to-morrow I send thee away;' and Uriah abideth in Jerusalem, on that day, and on the morrow, ¹³ and David calleth for him, and he eateth before him, and drinketh, and he causeth him to drink, and he goeth out in the evening to lie on his couch with the servants of his lord, and unto his house he hath not gone down.
¹⁴ And it cometh to pass in the morning, that David writeth a letter unto Joab, and sendeth by the hand of Uriah; ¹⁵ and he writeth in the letter, saying, `Place ye Uriah over-against the front of the severest battle, and ye have turned back from after him, and he hath been smitten, and hath died.' <sup>16</sup> And it cometh to pass in Joab's watching of the city, that he appointeth Uriah unto the place where he knew that valiant men are; <sup>17</sup> and the men of the city go out and fight with Joab, and there fall some of the people, of the servants of David; and there dieth also Uriah the Hittite. <sup>18</sup> And Joab sendeth and declareth to David all the matters of the war, <sup>19</sup> and commandeth the messenger, saying, `At thy finishing all the matters of the war to speak unto the king, ²⁰ then, it hath been, if the king's fury ascend, and he hath said to thee, Wherefore did ye draw nigh unto the city to fight? did ye not know that they shoot from off the wall? ²¹ Who smote Abimelech son of Jerubbesheth? did not a woman cast on him a piece of a rider from the wall, and he dieth in Thebez? why drew ye nigh unto the wall? that thou hast said, Also thy servant Uriah the Hittite is dead.' ²² And the messenger goeth, and cometh in, and declareth to David all that with which Joab sent him, ²³ and the messenger saith unto David, `Surely the men have been mighty against us, and come out unto us into the field, and we are upon them unto the opening of the gate, <sup>24</sup> and those shooting shoot at thy servants from off the wall, and some of the servants of the king are dead, and also, thy servant Uriah the Hittite is dead. <sup>25</sup> And David saith unto the messenger, `Thus dost thou say unto Joab, Let not this thing be evil in thine eyes; for thus and thus doth the sword devour; strengthen thy warfare against the city, and throw it down—and strengthen thou him.' ²⁶ And the wife of Uriah heareth that Uriah her husband is dead, and lamenteth for her lord; ²⁷ and the mourning passeth by, and David sendeth and gathereth her unto his house, and she is to him for a wife, and beareth to him a son; and the thing which David hath done is evil in the eyes of Jehovah.

⁹ And Manasseh maketh Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem to err, to do evil above the nations that Jehovah destroyed from the presence of the sons of Israel. ¹⁰ And Jehovah speaketh unto Manasseh and unto his people, and they have not attended,
¹¹ and Jehovah bringeth in against them the heads of the host that the king of Asshur hath, and they capture Manasseh among the thickets, and bind him with brazen fetters, and cause him to go to Babylon. ¹² And when he is in distress he hath appeased the face of Jehovah his God, and is humbled exceedingly before the God of his fathers, ¹³ and prayeth unto Him, and He is entreated of him, and heareth his supplication, and bringeth him back to Jerusalem, to his kingdom, and Manasseh knoweth that Jehovah—He is God.

⁵ In the misery of mortals they are not, And with common men they are not plagued. ⁶ Therefore hath pride encircled them, Violence covereth them as a dress. ⁷ Their eye hath come out from fat. The imaginations of the heart transgressed; ⁸ They do corruptly, And they speak in the wickedness of oppression, From on high they speak. ⁹ They have set in the heavens their mouth, And their tongue walketh in the earth. ¹⁰ Therefore do His people return hither, And waters of fulness are wrung out to them. ¹¹ And they have said, `How hath God known? And is there knowledge in the Most High?' <sup>12</sup> Lo, these are the wicked and easy ones of the age, They have increased strength. <sup>13</sup> Only—a vain thing! I have purified my heart, And I wash in innocency my hands, <sup>14</sup> And I am plagued all the day, And my reproof is every morning.
<sup>15</sup> If I have said, `I recount thus,' Lo, a generation of Thy sons I have deceived. ¹⁶ And I think to know this, Perverseness it is in mine eyes, ¹⁷ Till I come in to the sanctuaries of God, I attend to their latter end. ¹⁸ Only, in slippery places Thou dost set them, Thou hast caused them to fall to desolations. ¹⁹ How have they become a desolation as in a moment, They have been ended—consumed from terrors. ²⁰ As a dream from awakening, O Lord, In awaking, their image Thou despisest.
²¹ For my heart doth show itself violent, And my reins prick themselves, ²² And I am brutish, and do not know. A beast I have been with Thee. ²³ And I am continually with Thee, Thou hast laid hold on my right hand. ²⁴ With Thy counsel Thou dost lead me, And after honour dost receive me. ²⁵ Whom have I in the heavens? And with Thee none I have desired in earth. ²⁶ Consumed hath been my flesh and my heart, The rock of my heart and my portion is God to the age. ²⁷ For, lo, those far from Thee do perish, Thou hast cut off every one, Who is going a whoring from Thee. ²⁸ And I—nearness of God to me is good, I have placed in the Lord Jehovah my refuge, To recount all Thy works!

³² For the turning of the simple slayeth them, And the security of the foolish destroyeth them.

²¹ I have spoken unto thee in thine ease, Thou hast said, `I do not hearken,' This is thy way from thy youth, For thou hast not hearkened to My voice.

⁶ Therefore, lo, I am hedging up thy way with thorns, And I have made for her a wall, And her paths she doth not find. ⁷ And she hath pursued her lovers, And she doth not overtake them, And hath sought them, and doth not find, And she hath said: I go, and I turn back unto My first husband, For—better to me then than now.

¹⁵ I go—I turn back unto My place, Till that they are desolate, and have sought My face. In their distress they do seek Me speedily!'

⁵ and ye have forgotten the exhortation that doth speak fully with you as with sons, `My son, be not despising chastening of the Lord, nor be faint, being reproved by Him, ⁶ for whom the Lord doth love He doth chasten, and He scourgeth every son whom He receiveth;' ⁷ if chastening ye endure, as to sons God beareth Himself to you, for who is a son whom a father doth not chasten? ⁸ and if ye are apart from chastening, of which all have become partakers, then bastards are ye, and not sons. ⁹ Then, indeed, fathers of our flesh we have had, chastising us, and we were reverencing them; shall we not much rather be subject to the Father of the spirits, and live? ¹⁰ for they, indeed, for a few days, according to what seemed good to them, were chastening, but He for profit, to be partakers of His separation; ¹¹ and all chastening for the present, indeed, doth not seem to be of joy, but of sorrow, yet afterward the peaceable fruit of righteousness to those exercised through it—it doth yield.

¹⁰ `Because thou didst keep the word of my endurance, I also will keep thee from the hour of the trial that is about to come upon all the world, to try those dwelling upon the earth.

¹⁸ And he saith, `Shew me, I pray Thee, Thine honour;' <sup>19</sup> and He saith, `I cause all My goodness to pass before thy face, and have called concerning the Name of Jehovah before thee, and favoured him whom I favour, and loved him whom I love.'

⁶ and Jehovah passeth over before his face, and calleth: `Jehovah, Jehovah God, merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abundant in kindness and truth, ⁷ keeping kindness for thousands, taking away iniquity, and transgression, and sin, and not entirely acquitting, charging iniquity of fathers on children, and on children's children, on a third generation, and on a fourth.'

⁵ For Thou, Lord, art good and forgiving. And abundant in kindness to all calling Thee.

¹ Praise ye Jah, give thanks to Jehovah, For good, for to the age, is His kindness.

¹ `Give ye thanks to Jehovah, For good, for to the age is His kindness:'

⁷ The memorial of the abundance of Thy goodness they send forth. And Thy righteousness they sing. ⁸ Gracious and merciful is Jehovah, Slow to anger, and great in kindness. ⁹ Good is Jehovah to all, And His mercies are over all His works.

⁷ The kind acts of Jehovah I make mention of, The praises of Jehovah, According to all that Jehovah hath done for us, And the abundance of the goodness to the house of Israel, That He hath done for them, According to His mercies, And according to the abundance of His kind acts.

⁴⁵ that ye may be sons of your Father in the heavens, because His sun He doth cause to rise on evil and good, and He doth send rain on righteous and unrighteous.

¹⁷ And he said to him, `Why me dost thou call good? no one is good except One—God; but if thou dost will to enter into the life, keep the commands.'

¹⁸ And Jesus said to him, `Why me dost thou call good? no one is good except One—God;

¹⁹ And Jesus said to him, `Why me dost thou call good? no one is good, except One—God;

⁴ And yet, ye are forgers of falsehood, Physicians of nought—all of you,

¹¹ Violent witnesses rise up, That which I have not known they ask me.

² For the mouth of wickedness, and the mouth of deceit, Against me they have opened, They have spoken with me—A tongue of falsehood, and words of hatred! ³ They have compassed me about, And they fight me without cause.

⁵¹ The proud have utterly scorned me, From Thy law I have not turned aside.

² that Azariah son of Hoshaiah, and Johanan son of Kareah, and all the proud men, speak unto Jeremiah, saying, `Falsehood thou art speaking; Jehovah our God hath not sent thee to say, Do not enter Egypt to sojourn there; ³ for Baruch son of Neriah is moving thee against us, in order to give us up into the hand of the Chaldeans, to put us to death, and to remove us to Babylon.'

⁵⁹ And the chief priests, and the elders, and all the council, were seeking false witness against Jesus, that they might put him to death, ⁶⁰ and they did not find; and many false witnesses having come near, they did not find; and at last two false witnesses having come near, ⁶¹ said, `This one said, I am able to throw down the sanctuary of God, and after three days to build it.' <sup>62</sup> And the chief priest having stood up, said to him, `Nothing thou dost answer! what do these witness against thee? ⁶³ and Jesus was silent. And the chief priest answering said to him, `I adjure thee, by the living God, that thou mayest say to us, if thou art the Christ—the Son of God.' <sup>64</sup> Jesus saith to him, `Thou hast said; nevertheless I say to you, hereafter ye shall see the Son of Man sitting on the right hand of the power, and coming upon the clouds, of the heaven.' ⁶⁵ Then the chief priest rent his garments, saying, —`He hath spoken evil; what need have we yet of witnesses? lo, now ye heard his evil speaking; <sup>66</sup> what think ye?' and they answering said, `He is worthy of death.' ⁶⁷ Then did they spit in his face and buffet him, and others did slap, ⁶⁸ saying, `Declare to us, O Christ, who he is that struck thee?'

⁵ for having found this man a pestilence, and moving a dissension to all the Jews through the world—a ringleader also of the sect of the Nazarenes—

¹³ nor are they able to prove against me the things concerning which they now accuse me.

⁸ a two-souled man is unstable in all his ways.

¹⁰ Their fat they have closed up, Their mouths have spoken with pride:

⁷ Their eye hath come out from fat. The imaginations of the heart transgressed;

¹⁰ Declare fat the heart of this people, And its ears declare heavy, And its eyes declare dazzled, Lest it see with its eyes, And with its ears hear, and its heart consider, And it hath turned back, and hath health.'

²⁷ for made gross was the heart of this people, and with the ears they heard heavily, and their eyes they did close, lest they may see with the eyes, and with the heart may understand, and be turned back, and I may heal them.

¹² O the happiness of the man Whom Thou instructest, O Jah, And out of Thy law teachest him, ¹³ To give rest to him from days of evil, While a pit is digged for the wicked.

⁶⁷ Before I am afflicted, I—I am erring, And now Thy saying I have kept.

⁹ Therefore by this is the iniquity of Jacob covered, And this is all the fruit—To take away his sin, in His setting all the stones of an altar, As chalkstones beaten in pieces, They rise not—shrines and images.

³² and being judged by the Lord, we are chastened, that with the world we may not be condemned;

¹⁰ They are more desirable than gold, Yea, than much fine gold; and sweeter than honey, Even liquid honey of the comb.

¹⁴ For better is her merchandise Than the merchandise of silver, And than gold—her increase. ¹⁵ Precious she is above rubies, And all thy pleasures are not comparable to her.

¹⁰ Receive my instruction, and not silver, And knowledge rather than choice gold. ¹¹ For better is wisdom than rubies, Yea, all delights are not comparable with it.

¹⁹ Better is my fruit than gold, even fine gold, And mine increase than choice silver.

¹⁶ To get wisdom—how much better than gold, And to get understanding to be chosen than silver!

⁴⁴ `Again, the reign of the heavens is like to treasure hid in the field, which a man having found did hide, and from his joy goeth, and all, as much as he hath, he selleth, and buyeth that field. <sup>45</sup> `Again, the reign of the heavens is like to a man, a merchant, seeking goodly pearls, ⁴⁶ who having found one pearl of great price, having gone away, hath sold all, as much as he had, and bought it.

¹² Only, Jehovah give to thee wisdom and understanding, and charge thee concerning Israel, even to keep the law of Jehovah thy God;

¹² And Huram saith, `Blessed is Jehovah, God of Israel, who made the heavens and the earth, who hath given to David the king a wise son, knowing wisdom and understanding, who doth build a house for Jehovah, and a house for his kingdom.

⁸ Thy hands have taken pains about me, And they make me together round about, And Thou swallowest me up! ⁹ Remember, I pray Thee, That as clay Thou hast made me, And unto dust Thou dost bring me back. ¹⁰ Dost Thou not as milk pour me out? And as cheese curdle me? ¹¹ Skin and flesh Thou dost put on me, And with bones and sinews dost fence me.

¹⁵ Did not He that made me in the womb make him? Yea, prepare us in the womb doth One.

⁸ Surely a spirit is in man, And the breath of the Mighty One Doth cause them to understand.

³ Know that Jehovah He is God, He made us, and we are His, His people—and the flock of His pasture.

¹²⁵ Thy servant am I—cause me to understand, And I know Thy testimonies.

¹⁴⁴ The righteousness of Thy testimonies is to Cause me to understand, and I live!

¹⁶⁹ Taw. My loud cry cometh near before Thee, O Jehovah; According to Thy word cause me to understand.

⁸ Jehovah doth perfect for me, O Jehovah, Thy kindness is to the age, The works of Thy hands let not fall!

¹⁴ I confess Thee, because that with wonders I have been distinguished. Wonderful are Thy works, And my soul is knowing it well. ¹⁵ My substance was not hid from Thee, When I was made in secret, Curiously wrought in the lower part of earth. ¹⁶ Mine unformed substance Thine eyes saw, And on Thy book all of them are written, The days they were formed—And not one among them.

⁷ be considering what things I say, for the Lord give to thee understanding in all things.

¹⁸ and the fruit of the righteousness in peace is sown to those making peace.

²⁰ and we have known that the Son of God is come, and hath given us a mind, that we may know Him who is true, and we are in Him who is true, in His Son Jesus Christ; this one is the true God and the life age-during!

¹¹ `Deliver me, I pray Thee, from the hand of my brother, from the hand of Esau: for I am fearing him, less he come and have smitten me—mother beside sons; ¹² and Thou—Thou hast said, I certainly do good with thee, and have set thy seed as the sand of the sea, which is not numbered because of the multitude.'

² In Jehovah doth my soul boast herself, Hear do the humble and rejoice. ³ Ascribe ye greatness to Jehovah with me, And we exalt His name together. ⁴ I sought Jehovah, and He answered me, And from all my fears did deliver me. ⁵ They looked expectingly unto Him, And they became bright, And their faces are not ashamed. ⁶ This poor one called, and Jehovah heard, And from all his distresses saved him.

¹⁶ Come, hear, all ye who fear God, And I recount what he did for my soul.

⁷ God hath spoken in His holiness: I exult, I apportion Shechem, And the valley of Succoth I measure,

¹⁶ Then have those fearing Jehovah spoken one to another, And Jehovah doth attend and hear, And written is a book of memorial before Him Of those fearing Jehovah, And of those esteeming His name.

³³ the heaven and the earth shall pass away, but my words may not pass away.

²⁵ Far be it from Thee to do according to this thing, to put to death the righteous with the wicked; that it hath been—as the righteous so the wicked—far be it from Thee; doth the Judge of all the earth not do justice?'

⁴ The Rock! —perfect is His work, For all His ways are just; God of stedfastness, and without iniquity: Righteous and upright is He.

²³ For He doth not suffer man any more, To go unto God in judgment,

³⁰ If his sons forsake My law, And in My judgments do not walk; ³¹ If My statutes they pollute, And My commands do not keep, ³² I have looked after with a rod their transgression, And with strokes their iniquity, ³³ And My kindness I break not from him, Nor do I deal falsely in My faithfulness.

⁶² At midnight I rise to give thanks to Thee, For the judgments of Thy righteousness.

¹ Righteous art Thou, O Jehovah, When I plead towards thee, Only, judgments do I speak with Thee, Wherefore did the way of the wicked prosper? At rest have been all treacherous dealers.

⁴ let it not be! and let God become true, and every man false, according as it hath been written, `That Thou mayest be declared righteous in Thy words, and mayest overcome in Thy being judged.' ⁵ And, if our unrighteousness God's righteousness doth establish, what shall we say? is God unrighteous who is inflicting the wrath? (after the manner of a man I speak)

¹⁹ `As many as I love, I do convict and chasten; be zealous, then, and reform;

³ Blessed is God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of the mercies, and God of all comfort, ⁴ who is comforting us in all our tribulation, for our being able to comfort those in any tribulation through the comfort with which we are comforted ourselves by God; ⁵ because, as the sufferings of the Christ do abound to us, so through the Christ doth abound also our comfort;

²² The kindnesses of Jehovah! For we have not been consumed, For not ended have His mercies. ²³ New every morning, abundant is thy faithfulness.

¹⁸ `Incline, O my God, Thine ear, and hear, open Thine eyes and see our desolations, and the city on which Thy name is called; for not for our righteous acts are we causing our supplications to fall before Thee, but for Thy mercies that are many.

¹⁰ because this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel, after those days, saith the Lord, giving My laws into their mind, and upon their hearts I will write them, and I will be to them for a God, and they shall be to Me for a people; ¹¹ and they shall not teach each his neighbour, and each his brother, saying, Know thou the Lord, because they shall all know Me from the small one of them unto the great one of them, ¹² because I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their lawlessnesses I will remember no more;' —

¹⁰ Lo, this day have thine eyes seen how that Jehovah hath given thee to-day into my hand in the cave; and one said to slay thee, and mine eye hath pity on thee, and I say, I do not put forth my hand against my lord, for the anointed of Jehovah he is . ¹¹ `And, my father, see, yea see the skirt of thine upper robe in my hand; for by cutting off the skirt of thy upper robe, and I have not slain thee, know and see that there is not in my hand evil and transgression, and I have not sinned against thee, and thou art hunting my soul to take it! <sup>12</sup> `Jehovah doth judge between me and thee, and Jehovah hath avenged me of thee, and my hand is not on thee;

¹⁷ And he saith unto David, `More righteous thou art than I; for thou hast done me good, and I have done thee evil;

¹⁸ and he saith, `Why is this—my lord is pursuing after his servant? for what have I done, and what is in my hand evil?

³ O Jehovah, my God, if I have done this, If there is iniquity in my hands, ⁴ If I have done my well-wisher evil, And draw mine adversary without cause, ⁵ An enemy pursueth my soul, and overtaketh, And treadeth down to the earth my life, And my honour placeth in the dust. Selah.

³ Also let none waiting on Thee be ashamed, Let the treacherous dealers without cause be ashamed.

⁷ For without cause they hid for me their netpit, Without cause they digged for my soul.

²⁶ They are ashamed and confounded together, Who are rejoicing at my evil. They put on shame and confusion, Who are magnifying themselves against me.

⁴ Those hating me without cause Have been more than the hairs of my head, Mighty have been my destroyers, My lying enemies, That which I took not away—I bring back.

³ They have compassed me about, And they fight me without cause.

⁸⁵ The proud have digged for me pits, That are not according to Thy law. ⁸⁶ All Thy commands are faithfulness, With falsehood they have pursued me, Help Thou me.

³² And stumbled hath pride, And he hath fallen, and hath no raiser up, And I have kindled a fire in his cities, And it hath devoured all round about him.

²⁵ but—that the word may be fulfilled that was written in their law—They hated me without a cause.

⁷ And a company of peoples compass Thee, And over it on high turn Thou back,

⁶³ A companion I am to all who fear Thee, And to those keeping Thy precepts.

¹⁶ `This day Jehovah thy God is commanding thee to do these statutes and judgments; and thou hast hearkened and done them with all thy heart, and with all thy soul,

¹⁴ and he doth the evil thing, for he hath not prepared his heart to seek Jehovah.

¹⁷ yet the high places have not turned aside from Israel; only, the heart of Asa hath been perfect all his days.

² and he doth that which is right in the eyes of Jehovah—only, not with a perfect heart.

² My God, in Thee I have trusted, Let me not be ashamed, Let not mine enemies exult over me. ³ Also let none waiting on Thee be ashamed, Let the treacherous dealers without cause be ashamed.

²¹ Integrity and uprightness do keep me, For I have waited on Thee.

² O the happiness of a man, To whom Jehovah imputeth not iniquity, And in whose spirit there is no deceit.

²³ Above every charge keep thy heart, For out of it are the outgoings of life.

⁹ And I have brought you out of its midst, And given you into the hand of strangers, And I have done among you judgments.

¹¹⁴ My hiding place and my shield art Thou, For Thy word I have hoped.

³² `Thy sons and thy daughters are given to another people, and thine eyes are looking and consuming for them all the day, and thy hand is not to God!

³ I have been wearied with my calling, Burnt hath been my throat, Consumed have been mine eyes, waiting for my God.

¹⁷ Do with me a sign for good, And those hating me see and are ashamed, For Thou, O Jehovah, hast helped me, Yea, Thou hast comforted me!

¹³ Turn back, O Jehovah, till when? And repent concerning Thy servants. ¹⁴ Satisfy us at morn with Thy kindness, And we sing and rejoice all our days. ¹⁵ Cause us to rejoice according to the days Wherein Thou hast afflicted us, The years we have seen evil.

¹¹ I said, I do not see Jah—Jah! In the land of the living, I do not behold man any more, With the inhabitants of the world.

¹¹ Consumed by tears have been my eyes, Troubled have been my bowels, Poured out to the earth hath been my liver, For the breach of the daughter of my people; In infant and suckling being feeble, In the broad places of the city,

³⁰ My skin hath been black upon me, And my bone hath burned from heat,

³ For consumed in smoke have been my days, And my bones as a fire-brand have burned. ⁴ Smitten as the herb, and withered, is my heart, For I have forgotten to eat my bread.

⁶¹ Cords of the wicked have surrounded me, Thy law I have not forgotten.

⁶ My days swifter than a weaving machine, And they are consumed without hope.
⁷ Remember Thou that my life is a breath, Mine eye turneth not back to see good. ⁸ The eye of my beholder beholdeth me not. Thine eyes are upon me—and I am not.

⁶ Rise, O Jehovah, in Thine anger, Be lifted up at the wrath of mine adversaries, And awake Thou for me: Judgment Thou hast commanded:

⁴ `Cause me to know, O Jehovah, mine end, And the measure of my days—what it is,' I know how frail I am . ⁵ Lo, handbreadths Thou hast made my days, And mine age is as nothing before Thee, Only, all vanity is every man set up. Selah.

⁴⁷ Remember, I pray Thee, what is life-time? Wherefore in vain hast Thou created All the sons of men? ⁴⁸ Who is the man that liveth, and doth not see death? He delivereth his soul from the hand of Sheol. Selah.

¹² To number our days aright let us know, And we bring the heart to wisdom.

¹⁰ and they were crying with a great voice, saying, `Till when, O Master, the Holy and the True, dost Thou not judge and take vengeance of our blood from those dwelling upon the land?' ¹¹ and there was given to each one white robes, and it was said to them that they may rest themselves yet a little time, till may be fulfilled also their fellow-servants and their brethren, who are about to be killed—even as they.

¹⁵ A pit he hath prepared, and he diggeth it, And he falleth into a ditch he maketh.

¹¹ Let not a foot of pride meet me, And a hand of the wicked let not move me.

¹ To the Overseer. —`Destroy not.' —A secret treasure, by David. Is it true, O dumb one, righteously ye speak? Uprightly ye judge, O sons of men? ² Even in heart ye work iniquities, In the land the violence of your hands ye ponder.

²⁷ A worthless man is preparing evil, And on his lips—as a burning fire.

²⁰ Is evil recompensed instead of good, That they have dug a pit for my soul? Remember my standing before Thee to speak good of them, To turn back Thy wrath from them.

²² A cry is heard from their houses, For Thou bringest against them suddenly a troop, For they dug a pit to capture me, And snares they have hidden for my feet.

¹ `The Erring One,' by David, that he sung to Jehovah concerning the words of Cush a Benjamite. O Jehovah, my God, in Thee I have trusted, Save me from all my pursuers, and deliver me. ² Lest he tear as a lion my soul, Rending, and there is no deliverer.

¹⁹ Mine enemies rejoice not over me with falsehood, Those hating me without cause wink the eye.

¹⁹ And mine enemies are lively, They have been strong, and those hating me without cause, Have been multiplied.

³ For, lo, they laid wait for my soul, Assembled against me are strong ones, Not my transgression nor my sin, O Jehovah. ⁴ Without punishment they run and prepare themselves, Stir up to meet me, and see.

⁵ And I am poor and needy, O God, haste to me, My help and my deliverer art Thou, O Jehovah, tarry Thou not!

²⁶ Help me, O Jehovah my God, Save me, according to Thy kindness.

¹³⁸ Thou hast appointed Thy testimonies, Righteous and exceeding faithful,

¹⁴² Thy righteousness is righteousness to the age, And Thy law is truth.

¹⁵¹ Near art Thou, O Jehovah, And all Thy commands are truth.

⁴ Looking on the right hand—and seeing, And I have none recognizing; Perished hath refuge from me, There is none inquiring for my soul. ⁵ I have cried unto thee, O Jehovah, I have said, `Thou art my refuge, My portion in the land of the living.' ⁶ Attend Thou unto my loud cry, For I have become very low, Deliver Thou me from my pursuers, For they have been stronger than I.

⁹ Deliver me from mine enemies, O Jehovah, Near Thee I am covered.

³ And David sweareth again, and saith, `Thy father hath certainly known that I have found grace in thine eyes, and he saith, Let not Jonathan know this, lest he be grieved; and yet, Jehovah liveth, and thy soul liveth, but—as a step between me and death.'

²⁶ And Saul goeth on this side of the mountain, and David and his men on that side of the mountain, and David is hastened to go from the face of Saul, and Saul and his men are compassing David and his men, to catch them. ²⁷ And a messenger hath come in unto Saul, saying, `Haste, and come, for the Philistines have pushed against the land.'

⁶ and he saith to his men, `Far be it from me, by Jehovah; I do not do this thing to my lord—to the anointed of Jehovah—to put forth my hand against him, for the anointed of Jehovah he is .' ⁷ And David subdueth his men by words, and hath not permitted them to rise against Saul; and Saul hath risen from the cave, and goeth on the way;

⁹ And David saith unto Abishai, `Destroy him not; for who hath put forth his hand against the anointed of Jehovah, and been acquitted?'

²⁴ and lo, as thy soul hath been great this day in mine eyes, so is my soul great in the eyes of Jehovah, and He doth deliver me out of all distress.'

¹⁶ and now, send hastily, and declare to David, saying, Lodge not to-night in the plains of the wilderness, and also, certainly pass over, lest there be a swallowing up of the king and of all the people who are with him.'

² Seeing—Me day by day they seek, And the knowledge of My ways they desire, As a nation that righteousness hath done, And the judgment of its God hath not forsaken, They ask of me judgments of righteousness, The drawing near of God they desire:

²⁸ `And be not afraid of those killing the body, and are not able to kill the soul, but fear rather Him who is able both soul and body to destroy in gehenna.

⁵ And He raiseth up a testimony in Jacob, And a law hath placed in Israel, That He commanded our fathers, To make them known to their sons.

¹² If thy sons keep My covenant, And My testimonies that I teach them, Their sons also for ever and ever, Do sit on the throne for thee.

² For I said, `To the age is kindness built, The heavens! Thou dost establish Thy faithfulness in them.'

¹⁵² Of old I have known Thy testimonies, That to the age Thou hast founded them!

¹⁸ for, verily I say to you, till that the heaven and the earth may pass away, one iota or one tittle may not pass away from the law, till that all may come to pass.

³⁴ Verily I say to you, this generation may not pass away till all these may come to pass. ³⁵ The heaven and the earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away.

²⁵ and the saying of the Lord doth remain—to the age; and this is the saying that was proclaimed good news to you.

¹³ and for new heavens and a new earth according to His promise we do wait, in which righteousness doth dwell;

⁹ `And thou hast known that Jehovah thy God He is God, the faithful God, keeping the covenant, and the kindness, to those loving Him, and to those keeping His commands—to a thousand generations,

⁴ Where wast thou when I founded earth? Declare, if thou hast known understanding. ⁵ Who placed its measures—if thou knowest? Or who hath stretched out upon it a line? ⁶ On what have its sockets been sunk? Or who hath cast its corner-stone? ⁷ In the singing together of stars of morning, And all sons of God shout for joy,

⁵ O Jehovah, in the heavens is Thy kindness, Thy faithfulness is unto the clouds.

¹ An instruction, by Ethan the Ezrahite. Of the kind acts of Jehovah, to the age I sing, To all generations I make known Thy faithfulness with my mouth, ² For I said, `To the age is kindness built, The heavens! Thou dost establish Thy faithfulness in them.'

¹¹ Thine are the heavens—the earth also is Thine, The habitable world and its fulness, Thou hast founded them.

¹ Jehovah hath reigned, Excellency He hath put on, Jehovah put on strength, He girded Himself, Also—established is the world, unmoved.

⁵ For good is Jehovah, to the age His kindness, And to generation and generation His faithfulness!

⁵ He hath founded earth on its bases, It is not moved to the age and for ever.

⁶ And He establisheth them for ever to the age, A statute He gave, and they pass not over.

⁴ A generation is going, and a generation is coming, and the earth to the age is standing.

²⁰ Thou givest truth to Jacob, kindness to Abraham, That thou hast sworn to our fathers, from the days of antiquity!

⁵ for this is unobserved by them willingly, that the heavens were of old, and the earth out of water and through water standing together by the word of God, ⁶ through which the then world, by water having been deluged, was destroyed; ⁷ and the present heavens and the earth, by the same word are treasured, for fire being kept to a day of judgment and destruction of the impious men.

²² during all days of the earth, seed-time and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night, do not cease.'

¹⁹ `And lest thou lift up thine eyes towards the heavens, and hast seen the sun, and the moon, and the stars, all the host of the heavens, and thou hast been forced, and hast bowed thyself to them, and served them, which Jehovah thy God hath apportioned to all the peoples under the whole heavens.

¹² Then speaketh Joshua to Jehovah in the day of Jehovah's giving up the Amorites before the sons of Israel, and he saith, before the eyes of Israel, `Sun—in Gibeon stand still; and moon—in the valley of Ajalon;' <sup>13</sup> and the sun standeth still, and the moon hath stood—till the nation taketh vengeance on its enemies; is it not written on the Book of the Upright, `and the sun standeth in the midst of the heavens, and hath not hasted to go in—as a perfect day?'

²⁰ From the heavens they fought: The stars from their highways fought with Sisera.

⁵ They do praise the name of Jehovah, For He commanded, and they were created. ⁶ And He establisheth them for ever to the age, A statute He gave, and they pass not over.

¹³ Also, My hand hath founded earth, And My right hand stretched out the heavens, I am calling unto them, they stand together.

²⁵ Thus said Jehovah: If My covenant is not daily and nightly, The statutes of heaven and earth I have not appointed—

⁹ for I also am a man under authority, having under myself soldiers, and I say to this one, Go, and he goeth, and to another, Be coming, and he cometh, and to my servant, Do this, and he doth it .'